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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent Texas Eastern $1,350,000 (which they have gotten back) and brought in Reginald Hargrove, a veteran United Gas Corp. executive. Among themselves the founders and Dillon, Read divided 150,000 shares of common stock. They paid $1 a share for it and split it into...
...suit raised a touchy point: would Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Commerce Secretary Harriman, Assistant Secretary of State Draper, et al., all high in the Administration and all ex-members of defendant firms, be dragged into the suit? No, said Clark. Only officials currently in the firms are affected. But the case might still be politically embarrassing to the Administration. The Russians, who have been bitterly attacking ex-Wall Streeters in the Truman Administration, would scarcely overlook a chance to fire another round with ammunition furnished by Tom Clark...
France, their strength did not come from deserting Communists. Instead, it sprang from deserting rightists (Guglielmo Giannini's Qualunquists, et al.), attracted by the Christian Democrats'newly firm anti-Communist line. The "People's Bloc" of Communists, left-wing Socialists and assorted minor parties more than held its own with 208,000 votes...
...French took too much notice. Top designers-Paquin, Schiaparelli, Maggy Rouff, et al.-had all promised to attend the show. But as the beauteous California models paraded in their bathing suits and dresses before buyers and fashion writers, there was not a big-name designer among the oglers. They had decided that California's bold publicity stunt threatened too much competition. But Georges Berheim, manager of Paris' huge Galeries Lafayette department store, cried: "Sensational! I would like to buy the whole collection...
...were unknown.They belonged to the rarefied atmosphere of the little magazines and literary groups to which Connolly gravitated on a trip to the U.S. last winter. Horizon's 3,300 American readers would find the picture of the U.S. disappointingly familiar. H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Erskine Caldwell et al. had painted most of it before...