Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have less playing like puppets on the part of our press? The American people are not afraid. Let our editors and press absorb some of that courage...
...young man in Washington, D.C., American Motors' President George Romney showed up at a costume party as a knight, accompanied by a fair young maiden whose hand he had just won (see cut). The choice of dress was symbolic. Later, Romney rode forth to battle, astride his trusty Rambler to engage what he considered the modern U.S. dragon: the dinosaur-like big car. For a while, Detroit regarded him as a mere windmill tilter. But as Romney began to smite the dinosaur hip and thigh, TIME chronicled his success round by round, carefully reported the rise of the small...
...high-altitude standouts on last week's gyrating American Stock Exchange (see Wall Street) were General Development Corp. and Universal Controls, Inc. Shares of General Development, the mailorder merchandiser of Florida houses and lots (TIME, May 19), zipped from 59⅛ to 69⅝, and its success boomed the stock of a flock of lesser companies planning Florida land developments. Universal Controls, an electronics maker, moved from 84 to 97. Both stocks have more than doubled since Jan. 1. Last week Universal announced a four-for-one stock split, plus a 10% stock dividend and a boost...
...took control by putting up $1,000,000, plus $2,500,000 from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash...
...Hanging Tree. A "psychological" horse opera suggesting that the American West was won on the couches of Vienna. But even as a frontier Freud, Gary Cooper remains Gary Cooper...