Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving with the times," declared the sedate British Broadcasting Corp. as last week it relaxed the rule that TV announcers must dress in dinner jackets on nighttime shows. The new, unstuffed-shirt policy brought cries of alarm from John Taylor, editor of Tailor and Cutter, bible of the British needle trades. A BBC man in a business suit is a desecration, complained Taylor. "The BBC should continue to set an example by doing the right thing visually." But Announcer Michael Aspel put the matter in a different light. "There used to be a communal dinner jacket which we just passed...
...letter of intent from Conorada Petroleum Corp. (Continental Oil Co., Ohio Oil Co., Amerada Petroleum Corp.) to invest $100 million in much the same way as Pan American...
...preliminary agreement with a combine including the U.S.'s Atlas Corp. (Floyd Odium), Atlas subsidiaries and affiliates, and pipeline contractors Williams Bros. (U.S.) and Ferrostahl A.G. (Germany). The combine will invest $240 million in drilling as many as 4,000 wells in the Comodoro Rivadavia field in Patagonia, $240 million for casing and maintenance of the wells, $5,000,000 in a factory to make meters and pumps...
...could dream up during a dull study period. The son of a middling prosperous shoe merchant, Belle declined an offer to go in his father's business ("Whoever got rich fitting shoes?"). Instead, he started out legitimately enough as a co-founder of the Eastern Investment and Development Corp., formed to specialize in industrial uplift of moribund towns; he helped revive tiny (pop. 1,800) Saltsburg, Pa. with a campaign that attracted three new industries with a payroll of about $1,000,000 annually. Then, perfumed with a reputation for good works, the E.I.D.C. group really started operating. Belle...
Hundreds of millions of the world's people are ill housed, live in rude shacks, under palm fronds, in caves or hovels. Last week the Rockefeller brothers' Ibec Housing Corp. announced that it will undertake worldwide production and marketing of a simple machine that promises much for the homeless millions. Called the Cinva-Ram Block Press, it makes sturdy brick from a down-to-earth mixture of 90-95% dirt and 5-10% cement or other binding admixtures, such as lime or animal dung...