Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entries ranged from Irving Berlin's "best wishes" and signature on an other wise white page (price: $500) to a fifth-of-a-page, rear-end view of Actress Shirley MacLaine...
...comprehensive credit card that will permit holders to charge everything from shoes and doctors' bills to liquor and the costs of artificial insemination of cows. "Bankamericard" customers will be billed at the end of each month, charged 1½%-a-month interest if they wish to let the bill go longer than 25 days. The cards are free and available to nondepositors. The bank will collect up to 6% from participating merchants on purchases...
Counterattack. Then Reynolds struck the final blow. It went into the open market for all Aluminium shares that stockholders wanted to sell. The market rose to $11.90. At week's end Reynolds held directly nearly one-half of all shares outstanding, had even picked up 260,000 shares that the Church of England's Commissioners, who handle the church's investments, unloaded at a profit of about $1,000,000. Reynolds' investment: around $40 million. In addition. Tube and Reynolds upped their stock-swap offer to $12.32, got enough additional stock to raise their total holdings...
...mettlesome front-page newspaper litany (30 years ago Chicago had eight dailies), 4,000,000 Chicagoans were left with but two voices: the somewhat muted Tribune echo of the late Robert R. McCormick's testy Republican conservatism and the somewhat vague independence of Marshall Field. But the end result may be good. By buying the News, newly confident Marshall Field Jr. has succeeded in doing what his father, who established the Sun in 1941. was never able to do: set himself up to give the Tribune a real run for its money. As if in testament of this, Maryland...
...week's end, in a burst of judgment, the Mail decided the British recognition of Fidel Castro and his revolutionary government in Cuba was Page One fare. But by then, many a Mail reader cared little for such trivia, hurriedly turned to inside pages in search of the balloon girl and Reporter Barber in Tibet...