Word: countings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...places in the free world where a birth-control congress could count on local interest in the subject, India was No. 1. Speaking in New Delhi last week to the Sixth International Conference on Planned Parenthood, Britain's Sir Julian Huxley warned that India's "failure to solve her population problem will be a political and social disaster," while "success will secure her leadership in Asia and give hope to the world at large." Biologist Huxley called it absurd that in India's second five-year plan $14 million is being spent on malaria control, which "will...
Guterma resigned as chairman and president of F. L. Jacobs Co., the diversified holding company for his 13 (at last count) corporations. In as chairman went beefy (225 Ibs.) Hal Roach Jr., whose heavy interests in Hal Roach Studios and Mutual Broadcasting System, two Jacobs' affiliates, spurred him to purchase Guterma's stock interests in F. L. Jacobs. Said Roach: "I want to get what I believe is an inherently good company back in shape." But SEC insisted that the only way to achieve that was for F. L. Jacobs to be placed in the hands...
...Phillips keeps a sharp eye on the books of his 100 companies (1958 sales: $39 million), though he admits: "The building stage is the most exciting of all. I can't stand the bookkeeping part. I tell them 'I'll make it and you count...
Comparative scores would seem to back their contention. Yale split with Princeton, winning 3 to 2 after bowing by a 3-1 score; the Crimson tied the Tigers, 5 to 5. In the last Dartmouth game Yale lost by a 5-4 count, the varsity by 4 to 3. The Elis upset B.U. by a 5-2 margin, while Harvard was held...
...Eventually Rothstein owned pieces of so many sorts of businesses-including real estate, rumrunning, narcotics, bookmaking, insurance. Wall Street bucket shops, trade unions, racing stables, bail bonds-that he was quite unable to count his money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying...