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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the paper signing was over last week, Argentina owned the United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd., I.T. & T.'s largest operating subsidiary. And Behn had been paid his price of $95 million in U.S. money (I.T. & T.'s original investment: some $85 million). I.T. & T. also got a ten-year contract to furnish technical advisors, and exclusive rights to supply its former subsidiary with equipment...
...cities, to talk on religious tolerance under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. They have even worked out advertising tie-ups with tobacco companies-because the book speaks favorably of smoking. They have printed 125,000 copies of the book, which they claim is the largest pre-publication printing of a first novel in publishing history...
...most prestigious of colleges is the American University of Beirut, largest U.S. educational center abroad. A.U.B.'s grads include a recent Syrian Prime Minister (now U.N. delegate), the Lebanese Minister to the U.S. Among former Beirut teachers: Vassar's President Emeritus Henry Noble MacCracken...
...wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
Biggest buyer was a 43-year-old contractor named Martin Wunderlich, of Jefferson City, Mo. In the largest single surplus sale to an individual, he acquired (for $2,780,000) a whole plainful of Flying Fortresses and other big planes (see cut), 5,540 in all. Like the other buyers he must scrap them...