Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Field, the guest star, brings freshness and charm to the role of Viola. Her non-classical experience is an asset to the unorthodox production...
...from the pool. From there, Odium this year has been reshuffling Atlas' holdings to tighten up control and to trim expenses. Last week, as Atlas announced plans to combine two of its biggest properties, Barnsdall Oil and Ogden Corp., into the Barnsdall Oil Co., Odium reported that the asset value of Atlas shares was again on the increase. During the first half of this year, asset value dropped from $27.18 a share to $26.27, mostly because Atlas was selling off department-store and liquor shares. But, having bought into mining properties, Atlas' asset value was up again last...
...plunged in no Malthusian gloom. They could see, on the contrary, a day when the whole world would be better off. Science was the tool-but not the answer. The answer was man himself. Said The Netherlands' Dr. Egbert de Vries, expert on rural economies: "People are an asset, a natural,resource, and not a liability . . . Humanity has the right, the duty and the privilege of having faith in the future...
...nothing pleased the Dutch more than the clear success of their own new opera. The Dutch government and the city of Amsterdam, recognizing a new national asset when they see one, have agreed to meet half the budget of the young company until...
...deadlock had thus far prevented sale of a single asset, though 1,100 cartel agreements had been ordered dissolved. Now that some plants were ready for sale, there was another obstacle-a shortage of German capital to buy them. Much of the available capital in Germany was controlled by the cartelists. But the Military Government hoped that enough safeguards could be set up to keep the plants from being secretly bought by the old cartelists or being drawn into new cartels...