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...soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 60-Day Man | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...fond parent, he is making a place for his two sons. When John Dabney, 25, who finished Yale last month, showed interest in publishing, Murchison bought into Henry Holt, made John Dabney a director. For John Dabney and Clint Jr., 23, who graduates from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, Murchison also bought two insurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 60-Day Man | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Four thousand five hundred different words can be made out of the letters in "Planter's Peanuts," according to Philip R. Harper '49 and Harold J. Holt '50. They each spent about 40 hours thumbing through an unabridged dictionary to find...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Word Cribbers Win Auto with Peanuts | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

Semantical interest was not the reason, but the $50,000 worth of prizes awarded weekly for six consecutive weeks by the peanut company in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Holt got a cigarette lighter for his eyestrain, but Harper came up a week ago with the number one award, a Hudson sedan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Word Cribbers Win Auto with Peanuts | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

According to Holt the task wasn't as formidable as it looked. With only nine different letters in the base words, the wear and tear on Webster was considerably reduced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Word Cribbers Win Auto with Peanuts | 7/8/1947 | See Source »

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