Word: chunked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Spyros Skouras also an nounced a plan that he hopes will make a big chunk of money for Fox in the future.Fox plans to convert a large part of its wide-open, 284-acre West Los Angeles production lot into a "Century City" with more than a score of skyscrapers and apartment towers. The project would eventually cost $300 million, bring a net income of as much as $36 million a year...
...past four years totals $612 million. The civic struggle has caused the tourist business to slump, but four luxury hotels are going up-including the 20-story Havana Riviera and the $22 million Havana Hilton (of which Mujal's Restaurant Workers' Union owns a $9,000,000 chunk). "Without a general strike in Havana," says Mujal, "Castro has no chance. As long as I live, there will be no general strike...
...Louis and Chicago, and the Central's 10,600 miles, reaching northward to Boston, Albany and Quebec and westward to Chicago and St. Louis, serve the nation's most highly industrialized area. The lines own millions of dollars in property (including Grand Central station and a huge chunk of Park Avenue real estate, Pennsy's Pennsylvania Stations in New York and Philadelphia), employ 184,000 workers, last year transported 80 million passengers and hauled 378 million tons of freight...
...ditch, last week voted itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...
Going along amiably with the rituals required of an elder statesman when he becomes a year older, former President Herbert Hoover, a healthy 83, boarded the liner President Hoover at San Francisco, sliced a chunk from a 5-ft.-long birthday cake modeled after the ship. Earlier, he told reporters that the state of the nation, despite threats of war and inflation, is "the best in history." He reported that his health is "fundamentally good," then qualified his diagnosis wryly: "After you pass the scriptural limit of three score and ten years, your longevity depends mainly on pills...