Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen something they can print. The President's growing confidence led to broadcasting the sessions on radio and TV from film and tape, thus putting the President's words to the press on public record in direct quotes for the first time. While Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty reserved the right to snip pieces out of the tape or film, he has rarely used...
...colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention, finished fifth...
...While lawyers tangled in a marathon argument over his amateur status. Marine Miler Wes Santee ran another of his special races against token competition in the Cleveland K. of C. games. For a change, the fast-talking Kansan turned in a fast time on the track: 4:06.9, his best performance of the winter indoor season...
...projects for cracking plants worth another $70 million. Still another was Sinclair Oil, which turned a profit of $80 million in 1955 (some 8% better than 1954), and plans a huge expansion program. Since 1951, Sinclair has spent $750 million on capital improvement. Said Sinclair's President P. C. Spencer: "Our estimate of the future offers no prospect that such expenditures will be less over the next five years. They may well be substantially greater...
After interviewing some 8,300 U.S. executives and many of their wives, Sociologists W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen reported in the current Harvard Business Review: "A laborer's son who marries the boss's daughter will land in a top management spot only two months sooner than if he married the girl next door. The farmer's son is much worse off: he can get to the top in 24.5 years by marrying a farmer's daughter, but it would take him 29.4 years if he married into money...