Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. But as the trial progressed, a painfully familiar story emerged: in 1951 on a jaunt to nearby Bad Neuenahr Casino, Roden caught the roulette bug, began to drop as much as $1,200 at a session. The following year, when tax inspectors handed him a bill for nearly $8,000 in back taxes, Roden, unable to pay, remembered the dying days of World War II, when he kept his retreating Wehrmacht unit in meat by slaughtering cattle in the open fields of East Prussia. With Ewald Mischker, 48, a Düsseldorf stockyard worker, as his accomplice, Roden began...
When the New Deal asked Congress to regulate the nation's stock exchanges in 1934, Wall Street and leading industrialists fought the bill with such fervor that Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn called their opposition "the most powerful lobby ever organized against any bill which ever came up in Congress." Last week, as the Securities and Exchange Commission celebrated its 25th anniversary, the SEC was as accepted in Wall Street as the Stock Exchange, got due credit for helping raise the standards of stock trading and corporate financing to the highest in the world. But there were still complaints. They...
Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...
...chairman. Gray started as a salesman in 1930, became sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955 and president in 1957. It was during Gray's presidency that Reynolds wrested the lead in U.S. tobacco sales from American Tobacco Co. Succeeding Gray as president is F. G. ("Bill") Carter, 47, former vice president and sales manager...
Less than two minutes later, guard Bill Swinford picked off a Lion pass at midfield, and carrying the ball like a loaf of bread, sped to the Columbia 19. On the next play Bruce MacIntyre slammed through a gaping hole in the Lion defense and cut through to the goal line...