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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans assigned hundreds of men to find the culprit who could be held responsible for the lost fish (estimated at up to 40 million), the emergency shutdown of the waterworks and any reparations that the Dutch might claim. In all, the legal penalty could total $1,000,000, but no one could put a price on the possible long-range damage. Even though the swift-flowing Rhine is largely self-cleansing, it may take years before the river restocks itself with fish. There was, however, one possible benefit from last week's case of poisoning. It might well shock...
...kind, Israeli commandos raided an Egyptian coast guard station at Ras Adabiya, seven miles southwest of Suez. They claimed 15 Egyptians killed and a small radar station destroyed, at a cost of two men wounded. In a second raid, this time on Jordan, Israeli commandos blasted the $30 million East Ghor irrigation duct...
...among the country's biggest business enterprises. Using membership dues and bank loans, the students have bought a driving school, bookstores, a book publishing company, majority interest in a fertilizer plant, and a 25% share in Amer-Tupakka, a cigarette manufacturer that has annual sales of $11 million. The bulk of the unions' annual income of $7,500,000 comes from their real estate, worth at least $25 million. It consists mainly of dormitories, which the students built themselves and which they turn into tourist hotels during summer vacations...
...Bullock's subsidiary. He helped swing his firm's bitterly divided board in favor of Federated's takeover bid in 1964, and last year the parent company chose Keeshan to head the entire Bullock's-Magnin chain, a 31-link organization that has $280 million in annual sales...
Darryl F. Zanuck seized control of 20th Century-Fox in 1962 after a lot of nasty infighting; in five years he and his son Richard turned a single-year loss of $39.8 million into a single-year profit of $12.5 million. Success, naturally, bred envy. And envy gave rise to tales of dirty dealing, venality and grossness. Two years ago, the company gave the run of the lot to a freelance writer, John Gregory Dunne. Dunne could attend any meeting, drop in on any set. He would learn the truth, and the truth somehow would set 20th Century-Fox free...