Word: brought
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plunking down $18 million for an apartment-hotel resort called "Hawaiian Village," starting a $350 million "dream city" in Oahu's Kokohead area. Sheraton Hotels took over four splendid Waikiki Beach hotels, including the Royal Hawaiian and Moana, and made them pay. The venerable Bank of Hawaii brought in a new president from California, Rudy Peterson, and Peterson in turn brought with him such surefire mainland business-getters as charge accounts for credit loans and a factoring system for a growing textile industry...
Last week, financed by the enterprising German weekly Der Stern, a seven-man team of frogmen, equipped with an underwater TV camera, successfully brought up from the depths of Toplitz Lake 300,000 phony pounds in good condition, the first of an estimated ?16 million believed hidden there. Scotland Yard only yawned: the British long ago had changed the design of their ?5 and ?10 notes. Just to be safe, Austrian police decided to destroy all the notes they could find...
...ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti-Communist literature under the dinner places and into the beds of Iron Curtain delegates, or handed...
...effects-the frantic music of bagpipes, thunder, the clangor of horses' hoofs, bells, and. in the sudden striking silences, the rasp of crickets. Armies fought across the front of the vast Elizabethan stage with such intensity that those in front-row seats pulled back in alarm. Offstage entrances brought the action into the far reaches of the theater; Macbeth strode out to meet the three weird, raffia-haired witches from the very back edge of the theater; Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane down every aisle...
...after ten years of preparation and two years of actual production, Samuel Goldwyn has brought it to the screen in Technicolor, Todd-AO, and stereophonic sound, where it will probably enjoy more box-office success than ever...