Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Communists have already armed East Germany. In Lord Beaverbrook, the maverick Tory press lord, the Socialists have an unexpected ally. His big Daily Express (circ. 4,000,000) is so het up that it caricatures Chancellor Adenauer as a Mephistopheles surrounded by Junker (see cut), and not content with whatever debatable influence his editorials have, Beaverbrook has been buying up billboard space and ads in rival British papers to further his campaign...
...Jersey Standard, Gulf, Texas, Socony Vacuum and Standard of California) will pay Anglo-Iranian about $600 million. In addition to this compensation, Anglo-Iranian, with a 40% interest in the new consortium, will still be the dominant oil operator in Iran. So Anglo-Iranian has cause to be reasonably content...
...Washington is still a long way from the condition of Imperial Rome-where the inanimate populace came at last to exceed the animate-but it does have a kind of grandeur. Some 5,000,000 U.S. tourists look their capital over each summer, and have reason to come away content...
...took twelve years, more than $250 million and a labor force that grew to 7,000 men to make Timmins' dreams come true. He raised more than $10 million just to survey the property to prove that the ore was sufficiently high-grade (50% or more iron content) to be attractive to steelmakers. Here and there, like almonds in a chocolate bar, prospectors found pockets of some of the richest iron ore ever mined in North America. They were able to block out 400 million tons assaying nearly 60% iron...
...dusting powders containing less than 5% boric acid can be safely used for babies. So reported two Manhattan pediatricians, Alfred J. Vignec and Rose Ellis. The much-publicized infant deaths due to boric acid, they added, have largely resulted from the misuse of solutions with a high boric acid content, often swallowed by newborn infants. Their recommendation: undiluted, powdered boric acid should not be dispensed freely over drug counters...