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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Longstanding rivalry between two of the world's biggest art dealers broke into open hostilities last week when Manhattan's 110-year-old firm, M. Knoedler & Co., filed suit against its archcompetitor, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., for unfair competition growing out of wiretapping. The suit, filed in Manhattan's Federal Court, charged violation of the Federal Communications Commission Act, asked $500,000 in damages...
...York holding firm of Pittston has caused an uprising within the armored car company. Brink's Chairman J. D. Allen has joined the raiders, sold 44,500 of his shares (at $36 apiece) to Pittston, which wants to merge the company with its own U.S. Trucking Co. But President H. Edward Reeves and four of the seven board members are fighting back, plan a showdown at the annual meeting March...
...Stock Exchange's big ticker screens one morning last week flashed a cryptic legend: "F 135 62." Immediately, the cavernous trading room erupted with cheers and popping flashbulbs. The symbol "F," unused since Consolidated Vultee Aircraft gave it up two years ago, now belonged to the Ford Motor Co., which at 10:02 a.m. on Wednesday began its first day of stock trading on the big board...
...URANIUM SOURCE being developed by Ohio Oil Co. is lignite, or brown coal. The AEC has agreed to buy the uranium concentrate if recovering techniques being tested prove economical. The lignite deposits in North and South Dakotas bear a "significant" amount of uranium, says...
...apiece to be applied against three supertankers costing a total of $25 million. The three new tankers, all to be delivered by year's end, will more than double the cargo capacity of the old ones, at a total price to Cities Service of $19 million. Esso Shipping Co. has traded five wartime tankers to the Government for $5,500,000, added another $15 million of its own money and will receive two new 35,000-ton-plus supertankers. Texas Co. turned in two old tankers, expects an 18, 500-ton replacement, at a cost...