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Lacey and other U.S. officials were worried by Magsaysay's open and unabashed exploitation of the friendship, but not Magsaysay. ''What do you know about Filipinos?'' he would say. "I tell you, my people like Americans, and they like to see me with Americans." In...
Last week Kaiser took the risk. His personal holding company anted up $37.6 million in cash to enable a K-F subsidiary, Kaiser Manufacturing Co., to buy all the plants and equipment of Willys-Overland Motors for $62 million. If approved by Willys stockholders, as seems assured, the deal will...
For years, Washington's Moslems have had to spread their prayer rugs wherever they might, for they had no mosque. On Jan. 11, 1949, the 1,379th birthday of Mohammed, the cornerstone for the capital's first mosque was laid at Massachusetts Ave. and Belmont Road. It was...
Last week, Hoffman became the kingpin of West Coast radio. With the help of Oilman Edwin Pauley, the Los Angeles branch of the investment firm of Blyth & Co. and R. H. Macy's, he anted up $11,200,000 and bought the 45-station Don Lee Broadcasting System, the...
Vadis is a project no U.S. movie company has ever before attempted. After figuring the odds, MGM's Louis B. Mayer anted up $6,000,000, the biggest budget in movie history, and dispatched ace Production Man Henry Henigson to Rome with orders to prepare the ground.