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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a gang of burglars attested to the value of the "love for sale" ads by breaking into the Anzeigen Zentrale, one of Stuttgart's largest billboard agencies. They not only rifled the safe but stole a batch of applicants' letters. "I wonder," mused Agency Boss Erwin Schaeuffele, "whether the burglars won't succeed in winning some of my lady applicants. Many of them are pretty desperate, you know...
...Heart. Chile was already attracting U.S. investment. Last fortnight the Chilean government announced that U.S. firms were scheduled to put up $135 million for Chilean industries. Five million would be spent on a plant for manufacturing thread. Anaconda Copper had begun to spend a whopping $130 million-the largest single investment in Chile's history -on a new copper extraction process...
...slid up to the canopied portico of Derby House in London's Stratford Place, a red-coated footman intoned the names of the visitors -two dukes, seven earls, eight lords, three ambassadors, the Prime Minister. Within, the host, a book publisher who calls himself "the world's largest," stood graciously receiving his guests...
Telephones. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which already holds the record for the largest corporate securities offering ($357 million), will better its mark. It planned a new bond issue of about $391 million, to be dated June 20. A.T. & T. will use the cash to help finance its $2 billion expansion program...
English a is finally going to get its much needed face-lifting. After years of trying to teach freshmen the fundamentals of writing through overcrowded sections and dull weekly themes, the College's largest and most sadly over-extended course is up for a complete and thorough revision...