Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andrew J. Lord, who was killed when his horse threw him in 1946; it is now run by humor-loving Harry I. Prankard, 56, the author of several books on accounting. It manages one balanced and one common stock fund with assets of $580 million (Affiliated Fund and American Business Shares), is now concentrating on consumer-industry stocks...
...Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 40, and Sheik Hafiz Wahba, 69, were elected directors of the Arabian American Oil Co., first Saudi Arabians to go on the board. Aramco had agreed five years ago to add Saudis to the board, but they did not seem interested until Tariki began his campaign for more say in running the company (TIME, April 27). Tariki, who holds a master's degree in oil engineering from the University of Texas, has steadily campaigned for a bigger cut in Aramco's profits. He wants to force it to become an integrated company in hopes...
Sentimentality often prevails in the characteristic Art Nouveau simplification of natural forms. The handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...
...years on end two pleas have characterized the plaints of Washington reporters and the criticisms of them: freedom from partisan editors and publishers and freedom of information. Drew Pearson, writing anonymously back in the Thirties, called for a purge of "business and money-drawer domination" of the American press. Harry Truman used to tell White House reporters that he realized they couldn't help the slant which their editors made them put into their copy. Adlai Stevenson favored the term, "one-party press." And, to meet the other complaint, the press now has a Congressional subcommittee to hear its demands...
...issues--such as the discussion of "permissible levels" of Strontium 90--where reporters digging for the facts and not just for a story perform a considerable service, and there are even times when the President can use his press conference to great effect (though Cater argues that this American "Question Period" has fallen on very hard times...