Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Classics Crank Mortimer Smith, the adapter (or the editor) may sometimes know "how to write the book better than did the original author." I've been reading those versions of Tom Wolfe's novels by Maxwell Perkins, and they're not half bad. Of course, I've never read the originals...
...note: The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes only three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers; and two girls in period costume sing Elizabethan duets on the grass a half hour before each performance...
...such shrewd tactics, the company, which the Tishman family controls with nearly 50% of the 1,940,000 shares of common stock, netted $4,033,975 in 1957, although the net profit for its first half of this year is down to $1,250,000. Tishman's goal is to build enough properties so that most or all the firm's profits will eventually come from rentals, make it immune to ups and downs in the market for new building. Says Norman Tishman: "When the day comes that we don't care whether we make a sale...
...Albuquerque and Los Alamos. Oil company pipelines sent 120,000 bbls. of oil daily to the West Coast and Texas Gulf refineries from some 750 wells in the area. With great finds in San Juan and Paradox Basin, oilmen counted 300 new gas wells put down in the first half of 1958. They expect another 300 before the year...
...there-in force. El Paso Natural Gas built a $750,000 division headquarters to operate the pipeline, has expanded it three times since 1952. This week or next, Shell Oil moves into a $500,000 headquarters, while Phillips Petroleum, Humble, Superior, Union, Carter, Gulf, Magnolia, Continental, Skelly and half a dozen other majors all have sizable operations...