Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paying public, once it got the point that only tax-dodgers need fear the ringing doorbell, seemed well pleased with "Operation Snoop," as the press called it. Last week, when the tabulation of the two-day canvass was reported, it looked like a tax-collector's dream. Out of 8,800 New Englanders questioned, 1,150 (13%) confessed delinquencies, and dug up $80,000 in overlooked taxes. Other queasy, uncanvassed delinquents sent in an additional $162,000. The service, which spent $10,250 in salaries for the 258 canvassers, realized $24 in taxes for every $1 spent...
Last week Moody's wistful hope seemed less of a pipe dream. With a syndicate of well-heeled and well-connected backers of predominantly Democratic leanings, Moody took a 15-year lease on Detroit's Michigan Rotary Printing Co., which has been printing a profitable 800,000-copy Shopping News, and several weeklies. Its modern presses could easily print a daily newspaper of either 32 or 48 pages. Reported cost of the lease (with an option...
...chance to regain its former high estate. On the basis of current population trends, even if coal's share of the fuel market slips below 30%, statisticians figure that it should boost its sales, by 1975, to 880 million tons. But that figure will be a dream unless industry, labor and Government get together on a sensible cure for the chronic sick man of U.S. industry...
Lincoln Village is the realization of a ten-year-old dream for Murray Lincoln, 61, dedicated mentor of the U.S. cooperative movement and longtime (1920-48) boss of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, sixth biggest U.S. farm cooperative. Lincoln is going into housing as zealously as he first sold Ohio's individualistic farmers on the co-op movement and, later, on founding a variety of noncooperative corporations originally backed by co-op money. Today he is the $75,000-a-year president of the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and eight subsidiary companies, including Peoples Development Co., which...
...Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...