Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, CBS did just that by holding the meeting at Studio 41 in its Television City and showing a color-slide spectacular praising its achievements. Chairman William Paley remained unmoved when several stockholders complained about the quality of the CBS television schedule. After announcing that first-quarter earnings would drop about $1,000,000, although sales would rise to about $215 million, or 12% above the first quarter of last year, he formally announced two acquisitions-Creative Playthings and Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Two days earlier, RCA said its first-quarter sales and earnings were a record-$683 million...
...profit tax that Castello Branco had put through, held up a fare hike on some government rail lines and hinted that he might even double the country's minimum wage to $148 a month. But the military hard-liners are there to see that he does not slide...
...there is no plum in sight to replace North American's rich NASA contract for Apollo Moon Project hardware, worth $676 million in fiscal 1966 alone. To cushion a potential slide in Government business, which could push total sales down as much as 15% this year, Atwood began making plans to expand "into the commercial and industrial sector." At one point, he made a strong but unsuccessful bid for Douglas Aircraft...
...vice presidents deciding whether to serve steak at $5.25 a person or rib roast at $4.75. Then there is the matter of vegetables. Will asparagus be cheaper than brussels sprouts, or will carrots be cheaper still? When it comes to making such decisions, McDonnell's favorite tool is his slide rule. For a Christmas party, he once figured out that twelve ounces of eggnog per person was precisely the right amount to assure conviviality without too much hilarity?and ordered the whisky accordingly. The vice president who asks for a third drink on the company airplane (a Jet-Star made...
...simply moved on, leaving behind a fearful legacy of tormented earth. In West Virginia alone, strip miners are tearing up land at the rate of 6,000 acres a year, annually creating 240 miles of "high wall"-vertical cliffs of "overburden" (discarded earth and rock) that resist vegetation, frequently slide over onto adjacent homes and property...