Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Keith the securities owned by the Institute have risen from $8 million to $17 million in value because of the "recent inflation." Speaking in defense of the bill, he warned that the Institute's trustees may seek a charter in Connecticut, where there is no limit to corporate holdings...
...What he saw of the Fauves and cubists caused him to put off artistic facility and take on a lonely, lifetime mission. Dove returned to the U.S. and joined the stable of Photographer-Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, the first man in America to back modern art. Dove, painting on a Connecticut farm, soon earned a first of his own; he was the first to dispense altogether with representation. Yet Abstraction No. 2, done in 1910, is imbued with the qualities of nature. Few representational landscapes carry more sense of sun and shade, stone and tree...
...held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...
...Profits? McGinnis claimed that his economies resulted in a $9,275,000 profit for eleven months of 1955, almost double the 1954 net. But Frederic ("Buck") Dumaine Jr., whom McGinnis ousted as president in 1954, charged that McGinnis had used cash reserves and in come from subsidiaries, e.g., The Connecticut Co., to pad railroad earnings. Said Dumaine: "They must have lost $7,000,000 running the railroad 20 months...
...many of so good a Race, I hope you and Madame de la Fayette will go thro' the Thirteen . . . While you are proceeding, I hope our States will some of them new-name themselves. Miss Virginia, Miss Carolina, and Miss Georgiana will sound prettily enough; but Massachusetts and Connecticut, are too harsh even for the Boys, unless they were to be Savages...