Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise was the spread between the bids; they ranged from $38,750,000 to $302,000,000 (but the latter bid, put in by Blue Star Enterprises, Inc., was later called a mistake). Another surprise was the fact that Henry J. Kaiser, who has said early & often that he was planning to buy Geneva, put in no bid. Best guess was that H.J. thinks the $115,000,000 he still owes RFC is about all he can handle...
...movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...British imperialists who for the last 60 years have imported foreign labor to work their tin mines and rubber plantations. Now more than two million Chinese and some 750,000 Indians outnumber the two million easygoing Malays. Many of the industrious Chinese have since advanced far beyond the latter in education and have established thriving businesses of their own. In Britain's plan for self-government and federation with equal citizenship for all, inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula fear that they would become a minority in a Chinese-dominated state...
...latter-day angels had really gone to work on Call Me Mister. Two days after its first audition it was completely capitalized (for $150,000)-something of a record. Its backers were many and various: an accountant ($27,000), a publisher ($21,000), a music publisher ($15,-ooo), a Broadway producer ($9,000), a tobacco magnate ($5,000), a socialite ($4,500), a reporter, a broker, an actor, a housewife, a secretary ($3,000 each), a dancer ($1,000), a half-dozen others...
...control of the Chosen Corp., Ltd., a British concern which owned Japanese companies operating gold mines in Korea. By 1937, when the Sino-Japanese War threatened to wipe out his interests, Rubinstein smartly sold Chosen's Far Eastern properties for $1,700,000 to a Polish friend. The latter supposedly smuggled Chosen's cash in Japan out of the country, wrapped in obis...