Word: grossinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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All twelve department heads get the same pay: $35,000 a year* plus such perquisites as the use of a limousine. Yet to become Secretary of State, William Rogers is giving up an income in the $300,000 range, derived from his law practice and his limited partnership in the...
Not long after Ahab navigated the Pequod out of Nantucket, Mass., in search of Moby Dick, the economy of the small island off Cape Cod began to stagnate. With the whalers gone, the population dropped from 17,000 to 3,500 and construction stopped altogether, so that today 60% of...
AS a thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of...
Oddly enough, the three networks did relatively poorly: while grossing $904 million from time and program sales, they netted only $79 million before taxes, a mere 8.7% of the gross-compared with such corporations as Amerada Petroleum (49%). One reason is the high cost of filming documentaries and maintaining big...
O'Brien brought the company back to profits so far this year of $9,728,000, the highest earnings figure since 1959. MGM has sparingly sold off its film library to television, still has 1,200 films in the vault, including Gone With the Wind, for which the company...