Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabulous land bargains in the wilds of the Mato Grosso plateau. Over a Rio television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when they fall...
...missed any of his lectures. The students are notably impressed by the seriousness with which he takes their questions. Says one of his graduate students: "He doesn't click with those who have no questions. He thinks people who affirm or deny are missing the boat, because it's necessary to find new meaning...
MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT will sell up to $22.5 million worth, or 60%, of its 80.5% stock interest in N.Y. Shipbuilding. Louis Wolfson, chairman of both companies, says Merritt-Chapman will retain management control. N.Y. Shipbuilding plans to acquire Higgins, Inc., New Orleans boat builder, through an exchange of stock worth...
...Khrushchev that it would have made if Dulles had been at his desk. The U.S., said Press Officer Lincoln White, is still awaiting a "reasoned reply" to its note suggesting a foreign ministers' conference. And in a display of calm decision in action, Washington ordered a Navy picket boat off Newfoundland to board and search a Soviet trawler suspected of damaging U.S. transatlantic cables on the ocean floor (see Foreign Relations...
...SENDING BOAT...