Word: swift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jonathan Swift told it, Gulliver once knew a man who had spent eight years on "a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers." In these summer weeks, TIME'S editors deal with the inclemencies in Cuba, the Congo, Moscow and elsewhere, but happily spend part of every week extracting some summer reading to temper the raw air. Some examples in this issue...
...profits and dividends. In a sampling of 2,000 U.S. stockholders, the organization discovered that 51% did not know a single product made by any company in which they owned stock. Another 6% guessed-and guessed wrong, e.g., credited Bell & Howell with making aircraft, General Motors with gasoline, and Swift with trucks. Some 55% could not name a single president of the companies they invested in, although 82% claimed to have read the annual reports of every firm in their portfolios...
...orders were to wade to a small island some 400 yards off the river shore and "act like I was sick" until senior scouts arrived to save him. But George discovered that the river-shallow enough when the counselors had tested it that morning-had risen dangerously. Its swift current was washing a tricky pattern of gulleys and holes in the sandy bottom. A weak swimmer, he wisely decided to wade ashore and hunt up another, safer ford, farther upstream...
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First seven places were the same as 1958, but Texaco moved up to eighth spot from ninth last year. Chrysler rose to ninth from eleventh and Swift dropped to tenth from eighth. Western Electric, tenth in 1958, was eleventh last year. FORTUNE found sales of 500 largest firms rose to $197.4 billion, up 11.6% from 1958, with profits up 25.1% to $12 billion...