Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez invasion. Declared U.S. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon: "The truth is exactly the opposite," i.e., with normal French deliveries at 41,000 tons weekly, "in the second week of November U.S. shipments reached 212,000 tons." and by the first week in December had increased over twenty fold to 920,000 tons...
...earnings prospects. By last August more than $500,000 worth of debentures had been quietly converted into shares of common stock, said SEC; shares were then sold at a profit to "numerous" other investors. Financier Lannan replied that Crowell-Collier's new board of directors, which decided to fold the magazines last fortnight, included none of the investors who had converted debentures. Said Lannan: "The company's 1,000% clean...
...fortnightly Collier's and the monthly Woman's Home Companion. As the hours wore on, some staffers broke out bottles to brace them selves for the expected shock. At 10:30 it came. Board Chairman and Editor in Chief Paul Smith announced that Collier's would fold with the Jan. 4 issue and the Companion with the January issue, both out this week...
...Just beyond the Triangle, rising from the Lower Hill slums, will be a $14 million, 14,000-seat civic auditorium with a fold-back dome to let the sky in for open-air spectacles. Growing around it will be a colony of civic, cultural and middle-income apartment buildings. Toward the outskirts the University of Pittsburgh will complete two new schools for medicine and public-health services in 1957 (cost: $20 million...
There are two other policies, adopted at the HDC's first meeting in 1908 which have been kept constant throughout the Club's history. One of these was the decision to have women play women's roles. This caused "distinct opposition at the outset and wavering in the fold," Baker remarked several years later, but the members have always stuck to the original decision. H. V. Kaltenborn '09, a charter member and the first treasurer of the Club, remembered that at the time "I was very happy they decided to be sensible" and adopt this policy. "There was a very...