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Word: boud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boss of the nation's largest shipping line (the Khedi-vial Mail Line), monopolizes the sugar-refining, fertilizer and distilling industries, and also owns or controls at least ten of Egypt's most important companies, including real estate, bus line, textile and cotton-trading interests. Altogether, Ab-boud's companies supply Egypt's leading newspapers with 60% of their advertising revenues. Last week Abboud decided to get into still another field: he will build a mill to make paper, which Egypt needs, from the waste of his refineries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Pharaoh of Free Enterprise | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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