Word: corp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marshall death was only one more spadeful in the tons of dirt cascading over the case of the Pecos Ponzi. Other developments: > Senator McClellan's Investigations Subcommittee announced that it would investigate the suicide (apparent) of William Pratt, 31. Chicago office manager of Commercial Solvents Corp., the New York firm that sold $5,700,000 worth of anhydrous ammonia to Estes, mainly on credit, hoping to be repaid from his grain-storage income. While no connection with the Estes case was evident, Pratt, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in his car, left a bizarre note: "The bells even toll when...
After five days of violence, Mrs. Sinclair bowed to a plea from the Johannesburg city council that at least the night vigils be stopped. That evening, inside the city hall, Composer Igor Stravinsky was conducting the South African Broadcasting Corp.'s symphony orchestra in the first of five concerts for whites only (a sixth was reserved for blacks). Stravinsky had asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many...
Popping up out of nowhere, a mysterious "global combine" proposed to buy five Sheraton Corp. hotels on Waikiki Beach and 5,400 acres of choice land on Oahu owned by shrewd Chinn Ho, 58, most meteoric of Hawaii's new millionaires (TIME, May 5, 1961). Total price on the package deal (including a few odd lots from other landholders): $62 million...
...they beep, they squeak-they always seem to have something to say. But no one could be sure whether the whales' small cousins actually talk to each other, or whether they merely use their prattle for underwater navigation-a sort of mammalian sonar. Engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. have finally decided that they do both...
...discouraging was the atmosphere that long-scheduled sales of stock in two eminently solid corporations (Kellogg Co. and McGraw-Hill Publishing) were abruptly postponed by the investment bankers underwriting them. But the Street's hard-eyed moneymen took a different view when 430,000 shares of General Motors Corp.* went on the block. Within minutes, they tumbled all over one another plunking down $23 million to grab up every share...