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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggesting that there is still party opposition to be uprooted, this report indicated that Boss Khrushchev is demanding even more self-incriminating confessions before or during the 21st Party Congress, which opens Jan. 27. The rhetoric of accusation is increasing in intensity. State Prosecutor Roman Rudenko recently accused Malenkov & Co. of having "committed criminal violations of Soviet legality." In the old days, using the word criminal was the first ritual step to a show trial and execution. How much does Khrushchev need victims now? At the very least, some of Khrushchev's old comrades, now in disgrace, will probably...
...Wayne there," recalls Rackin. The Duke joined up for $750,000 and 20% of the net, and later Bill Holden was only too willing to come in on the same ducal terms. Of the rest of the pie, 20% each went to the backers of the whole deal (Mirisch Co.), to the distributor (United Artists), and to Mahin-Rackin. Said Wheeler-Dealer Marty Rackin as Horse Soldiers was being readied for release: "Hollywood's gone crazy. It'll have to find its level again when all this dies down...
VERTICAL-TAKE-OFF planes, which rise and land with rotors but cruise with propellers, are expected to go into service in Europe by 1962. British European Airways intends to buy six VTOLs from Britain's Fairey Aviation Co., fly them to Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam...
...that he was able to build a power plant in Canada a few years later. By mergers and purchases, he shortly controlled a utilities complex in which $2 billion was invested. By 1925 he was so rich that when he decided to refinance a small steelmaker called Trumbull Steel Co., he could say: "Gentlemen, if you have any doubt about my ability to underwrite the financing, just call the Cleveland Trust Co. and ask whether my check for $20 million will be honored." Five years later, with Trumbull and other small companies as a base, he founded Republic Steel Corp...
During World War II General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the North African and Normandy victories in the London office of the British Aluminium Co., Ltd. Last week the same office was the scene of a crushing defeat for British Aluminium in one of the biggest financial fights in the City's history. The victors: Britain's aggressive Tube Investments, Ltd., and Reynolds Metals, No. 2 U.S. aluminum company. Down with the British Aluminium management went Alcoa, No. 1 U.S. producer, which had hoped to get an important foothold in Europe's aluminum market by buying one-third...