Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poker-faced Leo M. Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...
...gathered in Balmoral Castle, Scotland, to help Princess Margaret celebrate her 21st birthday. The highlight of her coming-of-age party: the cutting of the royal cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...
...prospects shied away when they found that high construction costs would prevent them from selling aluminum profitably for less than 22? a lb., v. the Big Three's price of 18? based on equipment built at cheaper costs. Finally, the field was narrowed to one enthusiast. He was Leo M. Harvey, a shrewd Californian who had built up an $8,500,000 aluminum extrusion business, Harvey Machine Co., and already had sewed up a supply of cheap power, the prime essential for aluminum, at Montana's Hungry Horse Dam. Interior agreed that if Harvey could raise...
...Zodiac: "Margaret, whose birthday falls on the 21st of August, is on the bridge between Leo and Virgo-a borderline case between the strong and the demure...
...White Sox went down quickly in the top of the first, as rookie Leo Kiely allowed only one man to reach base. Howie Judson of Chicago was less successful, and a series of walks and singles produced three runs for the home club with no outs. Our neighbor leaned over to speak to a man smoking a cigar. "One hundred to sixteen," he said. "That's what they think of the Red Sox in this ball park...