Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other words, Churchill was not retiring just yet, still intended to hold on for a while, and Eden, stronger politically and physically than he had been for a long time, would just have to be patient. Tories had made clear that they would be proud and willing to have Eden as their leader and Prime Minister whenever Sir Winston was ready...
Under the terms of the deal, Kaiser and the state-owned IAME (Aeronautical & Mechanical Industries Corp.) manufacturing trust will hold 51% of the stock in a new automobile plant to be built and operated by Kaiser. The rest of the stock will be sold to private investors in Argentina. Kaiser will put up some $10 million, mostly in automaking equipment, and IAME will put up $5,700,000. Planned yearly production (by 1957): 40,000 vehicles-passenger cars, station wagons, jeeps and light trucks. Argentina has been car-hungry since 1947, when restrictions to save dollar exchange cut imports...
Home to Frisco. After Marilyn and Joe were inaccessible for two days, Lawyer Giesler announced that Marilyn would hold a "silent" press conference; she would pose for pictures but would not talk. While the press waited outside the house, Joe came out with his bags, mumbled that he was going "home" to San Francisco, drove off in his blue Cadillac convertible...
...Presbyterian George Buttrick, 62, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, which he will leave the first of next year, and eloquent preacher. He will teach homiletics and pastoral theology, will, hold the Plummer Professor ship of Christian Morals, whose occupant must be, according to its founder, "a Professor of the Philosophy of the heart, and of the moral, physical and Christian life in Harvard University...
...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...