Word: withdrawnness
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...Competition. Such a change was inevitable for an industry that has more than tripled production (and doubled prices) since World War II. As aluminum has penetrated more and more key markets, three vital factors in the industry's fortunes have changed: 1) the Government has steadily withdrawn the big buying contracts that fed the industry's early expansion; 2) the metal itself has become closely pegged to the gyrations of the U.S. economy; and 3) fresh competition has arisen both inside and outside the industry...
Three weeks ago Don Manuel Medina came briefly out of hiding in Mexico to try to explain to a grand jury what had happened. His sorrowful statement: "We just ran out of money and had to close." According to Medina, major depositors had withdrawn some $200,000 during the past four months, and the bank simply could not handle the demand for cash. As for his family's overdrawn accounts, Don Manuel explained that was simply his way of taking profits. But he had no explanation for the fact that most of the other overdrafts were in the accounts...
...higher than those submitted by the Ivy League's eight coaches and sports information directors, who picked Harvard to finish fourth and seventh, respectively. Those polls were taken last spring, when it was known that the great sophomore quarterback first-string passing ace--Terry Bartolet--had withdrawn from school for a year...
...least $1 billion a year. But U.S. businessmen are reducing, not increasing, their stakes, sent only $95 million in net direct capital south of the border last year (v. $1.1 billion in the peak year 1957). Even more disheartening is the record of Latin American investors themselves, who have withdrawn an estimated $11 billion from their needy continent since World...
Lovely Mary, the wife, is, as her brother Pink observes, "the most vulnerable thing on two legs." Since her husband has in effect withdrawn from her, she and Brother Pink live in a private world, have a private vocabulary and are as sensitive to each other's moods as twin fawns...