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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
With such mock solemnity Wall Street marked the passing of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., the giant utility holding company now finally dissolved under the Holding Company Act. For years. C. & S.'s low price (generally about $5 ) and large amount of common shares outstanding (more than 33 million) had made it a volume leader on the big board and a rich source of commissions for brokers. C. & S. preferred and common stockholders will get shares in four utility companies, with a listed total of only 20 million common shares...
...others, he had an itch to do better, to own a piece of the free and. fabulously fertile territory of Oregon, where a man could get a fresh start and his son could hope to do better than his old man. Evans captained the "On-to-Oregon" pilgrims with common sense, native guts and a powerful assist from ex-Mountain Man Dick Summers, surely the most credible scout in U.S. fiction...
...reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they...