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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largely U.S.-financed $1 billion Asiatic development fund. Understandably enough, many of the nations Kishi singled out to benefit from these plans are suspicious that what the Japanese really have in mind is a revival, along economic rather than military lines, of Tojo's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...other hand, most of the papers are enthusiastic home-town boosters, campaign busily for local improvements, sponsor dozens of community enterprises. In keeping with this sense of community responsibility-and to perpetuate his newspapers-Publisher Gannett in 1935 gave two-thirds of his Gannett Co. common stock to a philanthropic foundation administered by his executives...
Thirty years ago, Rubber Baron Harvey Firestone made an agonizing reappraisal of his business, reached a decision: for the first time since he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900, he would have to make a low-cost tire. The best way to sell it and still uphold the firm's reputation for quality was with an institutional-type show of good music-which his wife Idabelle adored. So on Monday night, Dec. 3, 1928, The Voice of Firestone crackled out over 41 stations of the NBC network, between Physical Culture Prince and The A. & P. Gypsies. Unlike...
...rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions, said that "the period of most severe decline may have been passed," and only "relatively mild" adjustments seem to lie ahead. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. said that chances of a real recession are diminishing...
After weighing such facts, Prudential Insurance Co. issued its usually accurate annual new-year prediction: 1958 will see a $3 billion dip in capital expenditures, but this will be offset by a rise of $5 billion in state spending and $1 billion in home building. Said President Carrol Shanks: business will hold at the present stable levels for the next six months, and then "the second half of the year is likely to be strong...