Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings were timid and incompetent, though sometimes rather pretty. Their souvenir value rose and fell with Hitler's own fortunes. Now that the artist has passed into history, the hunt is on again for signed, original Hitlers. He himself remembered having painted 300 pictures, but got back only 50 of them. Last week German dealers were scrabbling for the 250 paintings that may theoretically remain. Mainly to spur search, some of them were encouraging the rumor that a first-class Hitler might bring as much...
Valley of the Eagles (Rank; Lippert), filmed largely in northern Scandinavia, is noteworthy for a breathtaking sequence in which Laplanders hunt wolves with giant trained eagles. Almost as dramatic is a reindeer stampede in a blizzard...
Nothing could have been neater-and nothing could have led to more disappointment. For, inevitably, researchers began to hunt for other elements which would localize equally well in a particular part of the body. They found none...
...biggest surprise came when Ohio Match let out that it, in turn, is controlled by Norton Simon, 45, chairman of famed Hunt Foods, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 8, 1945), a big and successful West Coast food-packing company. Shrewd, canny Simon, who has an X-ray eye for spotting undervalued companies, had kept his control a secret. He had moved in when Government trustbusters, in 1946, forced the principal stockholders of Diamond Match Co. to sell their controlling interest in Ohio Match. Simon, checking into the company's books, found it had a net worth...
Last week Socony, the only U.S. producer in Egypt, gave that government a lesson of the same sort. Socony, which is producing 11,000 barrels of crude daily on the Sinai Peninsula, also maintained a branch to hunt for more oil, which Egypt needs. But Egypt has forbidden any new oil leases to foreign companies unless they are 51% owned by Egyptian nationals. Rather than set up a new company, Socony stopped drilling in Egypt...