Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...Goodby, darling," trilled Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express. "We're going to miss you," echoed the Daily Mail. But Lord Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England and the father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high...
...American Express, which likes to call itself a home away from home for Americans, last week decided to supply the home with a car. It teamed up with Hertz Corp., the world's biggest car renter, to form a new company that will rent cars around the globe. The new firm, called Hertz American Express International Ltd., will set up a system whereby a traveler can drive a Hertz car to any U.S. airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push...
...deal is a natural. American Express, which has been referring car-rental requests from American tourists to other companies, will now get the customers itself. Hertz, which has been hampered in its foreign growth because of the difficulty of lining up foreign credits, will have American Express help in approaching bankers abroad...
Hertz will own 51% of the new company's stock, and Hertz Chairman Leon C. Greenebaum, 49, and Hertz President Walter L. Jacobs, 61, will run it. Not only will American Express cash in on the potentially rich market for foreign-car rentals, but the deal also calls for it to invest in Hertz Corp. so that it can participate in domestic profits. Express is buying 25,000 Hertz Corp. common shares at the current market price, has an option to buy 75,000 more over the next four years for no less than...