Word: agente
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...During the negotiations on the controversial Dixon-Yates contract to build a $107 million steam plant for operation by private utilities in the Memphis area, Adolphe H. Wenzell acted as a Budget Bureau consultant while at the same time working for the First Boston Corp., financial agent for the project...
...crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that he could no longer act for the ship in any capacity, and the Panaghia was ordered to a remote section of the harbor, where an Egyptian patrol launch was set to watch it night...
...made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made the sole Italian agent for China's majoif trading company, and Muratori was dispatched to Peking to operate as Gentili's contact from an office at 98 Hsi Chiao Min Hsiang...
...stunned agent hastily called up the chateau's owner in Lyons, who accepted the count's offer instantly, and the count moved in. Nobody noticed that the count had picked Assumption day, when all the banks in France were closed...
...reached a mellow 17 before her work was published in the U.S. (see below). Due in the U.S. early next year is Beau Clown by France's Berthe Grinault, 16, a "strange, curious book" about a professor, a psychopathic killer and a clown. The publisher's publicity agent describes Berthe as "a beautiful child of the earth, both innocent and diabolic...