Word: exchangees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born in South Bend, Ind., Stein originally set out to be a doctor, got an M.D. at Chicago's Rush Medical College in 1921, studied ophthalmology at the University of Vienna, wrote a learned treatise ("The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lensen") after he returned to Cook County...
Car-hungry citizens behind the Iron Curtain may well be impatient and undisciplined. More than 50,000 Czech citizens have managed to save the down payment of 20,000 kroner ($2,800) to get their name on the state waiting list for a new auto, but only 19,000 cars...
Elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain, the situation is even blacker. Secondhand autos of every make, year and origin are quickly snapped up at astronomical prices, e.g., $5,000 for a tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new...
Opening day, thousands of housewives dropped their after-lunch chores to play, and within ten minutes some 5,000 phone callers had deluged the station's specially installed phones to ask questions or cry "Bingo!" The exchange was so badly jammed that the New York Telephone Co. pleaded with...
R. H. Kress girded for an all-out proxy war, said management will solicit proxies from stockholders for the first time. But it will have to battle some of the brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock...