Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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*Andrew Jackson turned 70 just twelve days after he left the White House. James Buchanan was 51 days short of his 70th birthday when his term expired. If Ike serves a full second term, he will hold the record for presidential longevity: 70 years and 98 days. The oldest President...
Not since its music critic called Liberace a "butcher" musician and "Chic Sale" humorist did the San Francisco Examiner get as many irate letters on a single subject. Other papers across the U.S. have had the same experience. "People jumped into this thing with both feet," says Managing Editor Frank...
LOUIS WOLFSON has added another company to the string of firms he owns or controls. For $6,800,000 Wolfson bought Connecticut's 27-year-old Savin Construction Co. (highways, bridges, industrial buildings), will merge it with Merritt-Chapman & Scott by exchanging all Savin's stock for 283...
Size & Efficiency. There was once a doctrine, fostered by New Dealers and pre-New Dealers such as Justice Louis Dembitz (The Curse of Bigness) Brandeis, that bigness kills competition, results in high prices, low production and shady business practices. This notion is untrue today, argued Slichter: "As a matter of...
To Manhattan Real Estate Man Irving Maidman, Tiffany & Co. resembled a piece of valuable antique silver, badly in need of polishing. Sure that big profits awaited the polisher, Maidman began buying Tiffany stock early last year. By early 1955, claiming control of almost 10% of the company's 132...