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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suite. A year ago in Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
...Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Corp., shut down five of its Pittsburgh open-hearth furnaces for lack of orders. In Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. closed one of its blast furnaces. As orders for specialty steels slacked off, Lukens Steel Co. laid off 150 men. This week, for the first time in 1949, steel output will fall below last year's rate for the same week (94.1% of capacity...
...offensive, they clustered in town squares, ballparks and filling-station driveways. Their crews sat in tents and trailers, cursing the thunderstorms that turned the wheatfields into quagmires. In the few fields that dried out, the first combines scythed their way north across the waving grain. This week, the second biggest winter wheat harvest (an estimated 1,021,000,000 bushels v. 1947's alltime record of 1,068,000,000) in U.S. history would get underway...
...associates* formed the World Commerce Corp. and raised an initial $1.000.000 to help "bridge over the breakdown in foreign exchange." Their plan: to provide the tools, machinery and know-how to develop untapped resources. Last week, in Jamaica, World Commerce Corp. was in the midst of one of its biggest developments to date...