Word: lose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company. Commercial Carriers then set up Test Fleet, transferred, all the stock to Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Bert Brennan in their maiden names, then guaranteed a $50,000 bank loan so that Test Fleet could buy trucking equipment to lease to Commercial Carriers. Under this can't-lose agreement, Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Brennan took in $125,000 profit from...
Angeles. At stake were 5,000 of 11,000 spectator seats which California Oilman Edwin Pauley claimed had been promised to his host committee. When National Chairman Paul Butler told him flatly to accept 1,500 tickets or lose the convention to an Eastern city, Pauley resigned, and a new committee, formed by National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and headed by former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, accepted Butler's terms. Main item of interest in the settlement: many Democrats thought that Butler and Ziffren, both longtime, diehard Stevenson supporters, had nipped a plan to pack the galleries...
...only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding Birrell for a supposed $150,000 reward-a bounty that would make any Brazilian cop drool...
...Mather is also the nation's lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...
...Plantation resort, donated another 5,000-acre plot that became the U.S.'s 29th national park. In Puerto Rico he built the lavish $9,000,000 Dorado Beach Hotel. While Rockefeller thinks that the Caribbean will become a winter Riviera for the Western world, he expects to lose money there, "for the foreseeable present." Usually, Rockefeller invests for the long pull; he expects investments to take ten years, or even 20, to pay off. Some never do. He has lost heavily on a company to build steel prefab houses (buyers did not buy) and another to tin tuna...