Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfairness of Politics. In the waiting room at Paris' Orly Airport, the Maharaja, toying with the remains of a ham sandwich, talked to the press. "Why should I take any money from my country's treasury?" he asked. A gold and ruby bracelet glittered on his chubby wrist as he lit a Dunhill Cedros de Luxe. "I have no idea what is behind the charge . . . India is going from Socialist to Communist, as you know. But I suppose we shouldn't say that, should...
...girl divers. both talented and pretty, won first and second in every event; San Francisco's Ann Curtis hung up a new Olympic record in the 400-meter swim. And in the individual track & field events, California's golden boys really shone. They walked off with seven gold medals-two more than the Swedes, five more than the rest of the U.S. team. Had California competed on its own in track & field in London, the tally would have read: California 102, Sweden...
From the late George Washington Hill, president of the American Tobacco Co., Loewy won a $50,000 bet that he could improve the green & gold package of Lucky Strikes. He finally even persuaded Hill to change it to white (Lucky Strike green went to war) on the argument that since people put cigarettes in their mouths, they like to see them in sanitary-looking containers...
...Flier paused to unload 2,500 tons of girdles ("the engine-room bell was clanging . . . he may have said girders"). "Every sort of object imaginable was being offered by street hawkers . . . noodles, poodles . . . leeches, breeches, peaches . . . roots, boots, flutes, coats, shoats, stoats." Perelman tossed the children "a few worn gold pieces which were of no further use to me," and then he and Hirschfeld took a brief ride in rickshas...
...footholds Allen & Co. already has in a dozen other fields would confuse a centipede. Through firms in which it holds controlling or substantial minority interests, Allen & Co. digs iron ore in Wyoming, gold in the Philippines, manages real estate in North Kansas City, New York City and Beverly Hills, runs railroads, buses and bridges in the Middle West. One of its biggest holdings is Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., bought from the Rockefellers. All told, the companies Allen has a guiding hand in have a net worth of above $200 million, net $15 to $20 million a year profit. Allen does...