Word: millions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constituency of his own. Thus far, his principal positive support has come from leaders of organized labor. Their muscle, of course, is not inconsiderable. Last week a poll of 2,638 United Auto Workers representatives showed 87.8% favoring Humphrey. The executive board of the Teamsters Union urged its 1.9 million members to vote for the Vice President...
They gave up touring at a time when they were being offered a million dollars a concert, when they were near to the height of their popularity. They were already rich, sure, but how many other performers turned their backs on that much money, adulation, and love...turned their backs on it because it wasn't, well, fun anymore? Fun! Don't they realize man has to sweat to earn his bread? Don't they realize that show business is a business, and that you have to get while the getting's good? Don't they know that life...
...York district court to assess the amount of the damages, accepted most of TWA's claims that Hughes' procrastination in securing jets for the airline had severely crippled its ability to compete in the early 1960s. Brownell set the sum that Hughes should pay TWA at $137.6 million. His report will now go to Federal Judge Charles Metzner, who is expected to in corporate its findings into a final judgment that will probably be handed down within the next two or three months...
...settlement would have hurt Hughes hardly at all. At that time, he still owned 78.2% of TWA and would, in effect, have been paying the assessments largely to himself. But, in a daring gamble that he would not have to pay damages, Hughes sold his TWA shares for $546.5 million in 1966. Thus, if he must now pay up, the money will come out of his millions with which he has lately been acquiring hotel casinos and real estate in Las Vegas...
...attack; in Manhattan. In 1934, Carlson, a physicist in a New York electrical firm, became so frustrated over the lack of copies of documents that he decided to do something about it. He worked four years to develop an electrostatic copying process, which has since become Xerox, an $800 million-a-year firm whose growth gave Carlson a fortune estimated at more than $150 million...