Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Ike's economic and political advisers decided that the Administration had to counteract the bad news. Stacked up in the custody of Ike's public-works assistant, Major General (ret.) John S. Bragdon, were detailed plans for several billion dollars worth of public-works projects, ready for...
The youngest, the cheapest, and the shabbiest of the clubs is Prospect. It is also the most democratically governed. Founded ten years ago, Prospect is unique in demanding neither undergraduate nor alumni dues, and its term rate is eighty dollars less than that of Tower and a hundred and thirty...
Anxious to become a world seaport, Bainbridge, Ga. (pop. 7,562) enjoys two advantages: 1) it straddles the Flint River, 105 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; 2) it is the home town of Georgia's frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate...
The Detroit of the small-plane industry is Wichita, Kans., where the two biggest companies-Cessna and Beech-account for 70% of all the dollars spent on light planes. Between them, they offer customers twelve different models, priced from $7,000 to $210,000. Beech concentrates mainly on higher-priced...
From the world's largest copper company last week came a dollars-and-cents confirmation of the industry's slump. Kennecott reported 1957 earnings of $7.32 a share v. $13.23 in 1956. The drop surprised few Wall Streeters, who are figuring on similar drops for Kennecott's...