Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a squabble with his imperious boss, he had left the paper, but had stayed on as her personal fiscal adviser until shortly before her death. Then, six weeks ago, he had learned that a codicil to Cissie Patterson's will had cut him out of a million-dollar share in the Times-Herald when she left it to seven other company officials (TIME...
...Bigger: the gifts of Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield (by now amounting to some $12 million) to endow university medical research and establish Nuffield College (for public affairs and economics...
...gathered to watch a radio recording of Dark Victory, with Celeste Holm, and Walter Abel playing the leads and Walter Hampden as announcer. Next month the recording will be heard over 549 stations, including the Mutual Broadcasting System, as part of an ambitious effort to reach the 70 million Americans who belong to no church...
Said Bishop De Wolfe last week: "We speak of missionary programs and think of Asia and Africa. But there are 70 million pagans in America, and we have missionary work to do right here. The conventional type of religious radio program has been ineffective in reaching the unchurched. This is a good place to begin building spiritual foundations...
...beginning to find it difficult to sell some of his products. Although Textron's net profits have jumped to $3,805,000 in the first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products, shutting down his money-losing sidelines. Few textile men thought that a mere Senate committee would budge tough...