Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert R. Young's dream of railroad empire, the instrument of accession was Alleghany Corp., the holding company that owned large blocks of major roads: Missouri Pacific, Nickel Plate, his own New York Central. Before his suicide in January, Young sold most of his own stock in the Central, but as chairman of Alleghany Corp. he held options on 100,000 shares of Alleghany common which he had yet to exercise; he had been fighting to reorganize Alleghany for three years. Only two days after Young's death, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Young...
...shows in detail how Wilson captured the imagination of a war-shocked world with the promise of a just peace and a League of Nations to tidy up the international madhouse. He then shows how Old World hatreds and greeds, together with home-grown suspicions, turned Wilson's dream into a patchwork of drab compromise...
...Star. Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was a pressagent's dream ready-made for stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
...very British, indeed-in fact, I should say decidedly more British than Britain is. It constitutes a kind of National Park in which extinct British species can be seen living in their natural habitat. But I cannot help thinking that Australia's Britishness belongs more to a dream than to reality...
Until money is obtained for the building, it "is just a dream," the University said. Although some of the necessary funds are included in the Program for Harvard College, over half of it must come from special gifts. The building is planned so that it can be built in two stages as the money becomes available...