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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober second thought, conservatives guessed that the Cullen Foundation would net no more than $50 million after production costs. True Texans disowned such small talk. Their guess was well over $100 million, putting the Cullen Foundation among the country's three or four largest...
...century, Massey-Harris Co. has progressed from plows to self-propelled combines. It is now Canada's biggest farm-implement maker-and the world's fifth largest-with five plants in Canada, three in the U.S. and subsidiaries scattered around the globe. But in its maturity its production arteries hardened...
...zanne was drenched by a thundershower which came up while he painted in a field. Within a few days he was dead. But his art was not. The huge Cézanne exhibition which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week-probably the largest ever to be seen in the U.S.-proved once again that his work had been infinitely better than the worried master dared hope...
...split, which they are naturally going to seek to camouflage. But if the American initiative in Greece is to be the forerunner of other equally vigorous moves, if some kind of a showdown is really coming, then the cleavage in the Communist Party will be total and avowed. The largest party in France will say goodbye to its 'respectability' and Maurice Thorez will be politically executed without mercy by his own party...
...President Gustav Metzman called Young to ask if he could come and see Young at his winter home in Palm Beach. Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock. C. & O.'s holdings, which were reported at 315,000 shares, were now up to 400,000, about 7% of all shares outstanding. Vanderbilt and Metzman went to Palm Beach...