Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MISSILE production is getting an increasingly big chunk of the U.S. defense dollar. Bell Aircraft Corp. has just landed a $35 million contract, reportedly to make a guided missile at its Niagara Falls plant...
...China are incompatible goals. A perilous drain of French resources has been the main result of prolonged warfare. Yet if the French withdraw their troops "because the natives have asked for independence and have not thrown their full effort into the war" they will deed the Communists a priceless chunk of real-estate, and endanger every free country in the Far East...
Under the merger, which stockholders of both companies must still approve, Philip Morris gets Parliament cigarettes, and thus a sizable chunk of the fast-growing filter-tip market. For the popularity of his filtered cigarettes, Cullman is cashing in handsomely. His share-for-share swap of stock with Philip Morris will place a value of approximately $22 million on the company, whose control (55%) was bought for only $1,000,000 twelve years ago by the Cullman family's investment trust, Tobacco & Allied Stocks, Inc. Since Cullman, his brother Howard, chairman of New York's Port Authority...
...buying Kingan, Slotkin had bitten off a big chunk of troubles. But last week Slotkin was sure that, by such economies as combining the two firms' sales forces, he would soon have Kingan on a paying basis. Eventually, he estimates, the merger should mean a $500 million annual gross for Hygrade. Exuberant over this gratifying prospect, and incidentally to persuade Kingan minority stockholders to exchange their shares, Slotkin last week declared a 100% stock dividend for his Hygrade stockholders...
Continuation of the rule to football Saturdays would not be a carte blanche for revelry. The Masters, with a large chunk of discretion on parietal rules, can easily cancel the eleven o'clock permissions if they come in for wholesale abuse, either in spring or fall. Resident tutors and House attendants, in isolated cases, need no legal writs to enter rooms or break up parties that get out of hand. I view of last spring's performance, it seems that undergraduates can act more responsibility with social freedom than the Faculty thought. We hope the Masters will be willing...