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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...
...West than any so-called ideological warfare. Iran, keystone of an important Anglo-American oil reservoir, is the stage for an oil dispute that threatens to boil over momentarily. Skittish over Russian expansion towards the Persian Gulf, the United States has influenced Iran to disavow a proposed oil-rights contract with Russia in a move that has Moscow frothing. This most recent indication of a return to the naked power politics of pre-war years defeats the purpose of the U.N. and suggests a headlong race for natural resources...
With three complete turns of the Pacific to his credit and the war ended, Paar turned his fat press notices into a movie contract and a radio show for Camel cigarets. He lasted exactly three weeks. "They cut my lines," he says. "They had no understanding of the real me." American Tobacco came to the rescue...
Cash In. For his services, Eaton and associates got a 10% commission on the bonds and 2,000,000 shares of Steep Rock stock from the company at 1? per share (it was then selling for close to $1). He then trussed up Steep Rock to a ten-year contract to sell all its ore to Premium Iron Ores, Ltd. Premium in turn purchased 800,000 shares of Steep Rock at $2.50 a share to provide working capital...
Premium Iron was Cyrus Eaton under another name; he owned 74.4% of it, and his good friend, Otis & Co.'s President William Raymond Daley, owned the rest. The contract gave Premium 2% on all Steep Rock sales. Salesman Eaton then got the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., on whose board he sits, to agree to buy all the ore that Steep Rock could produce and Premium Iron could sell...