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...Holland's largest corporations is the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., a $440,000,000 concern. An estimated one-fifth of its stock, or $45,000,000 worth, is held by U.S. investors, who, like the Dutch stockholders, have first option to buy any new shares issued. Last week the company announced a whopping new $114,000,000 stock issue. But the Dutch government, by means of new currency controls, virtually froze U.S. investors...
...head man in the nation's largest university traveled East from his eight-campus real'n of 41, 451 students for a Thanksgiving visit with Robert Jr. 21, and ten-month-old grandson Robert III ("we're forming a dynasty"). President Canant acted as host during the four-day stay in Cambridge...
...HYRC, most recent addition to the University's political action groups, is the largest of its kind, according to a bulletin released this week by its planning committee...
...largest vote ever cast on any issue in the history of the Annex, 802 undergraduates -- approximately 83 percent of the student body -- marked affirmative ballots. Thirty-six voters dissented; 126 'Cliffedwellers failed to vote in the two-day balloting...
Conspiracy and collusion were benignly viewed by Theatre Workshop ticket hawkers as accounting for the largest advance sale in the history of any College dramatic production...