Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garmisch-Partenkirchen had been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
...term, the teacher is getting married and quitting the school system-why hold grudges...
...between the movies and TV suffered its Dienbienphu last week. Paramount Pictures Corp., last of the big moviemakers to hold out, finally surrendered, sold its backlog of 750 pre-1948 films to TV. The price: a handsome $50 million. Soon to visit the televiewer at home, courtesy of Management Corp. of America (and numberless sponsors), are such Paramount standouts as Going My Way, This Gun for Hire, The Lost Weekend, all the Mae West films, the Hope-Crosby-Lamour "Road" shows; and Cecil B. de Mille's Cleopatra, Unconquered and Union Pacific...
...heavy construction. The man behind the code: old (70) Bricklayer Richard James Gray, the B.C.T.D.'s unorthodox president, who shocked his fellow labor leaders at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City, NJ. two months ago by urging a voluntary one-year wage freeze to hold prices down (TIME, Dec. 16). Gray's argument for wage restraint also applies to the anti-featherbedding code: high construction costs are against the interests of building-trades workers, because high costs curb demand, and lower demand means fewer jobs...
...partial interest in the subsidiary to a buyer willing to invest at least $1,000,000 and distribute the rest of the subsidiary to United stockholders; or 3) sell outright enough assets for a purchaser to import the required 9,000,000 stems a year. United may not hold an interest in the purchaser, nor may Standard Fruit & Steamship, its major rival, which now has 18% of the U.S. market...