Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATOM ENERGY INVESTMENT by private U.S. industry will top $500 million this year, says AEChairman Lewis L. Strauss. Companies are spending $270 million to build power reactors and $33 million for parts, $200 million for uranium mining, $25 million for research.
Among the fortune seekers who swarmed to the Yukon in the 1898 Gold Rush was one Michael Stepovich, out of the Balkans by way of Oregon. He struck it fairly rich. Unlike most sourdoughs, he sank his profits into land investments instead of boozy sprees. Other Alaskans thought he was...
U.S. ENEMY ASSETS SALE will dispose of Hugo Stinnes' German mining and shipping empire, whose $67 million assets make it second richest wartime-seized enemy property still held by Government (first: General Aniline & Film). In deal expected to bring around $20 million, Justice Department is taking bids on its...
The West German government is one of the world's richest property holders. Though it is committed to free enterprise, it controls 314 German industrial companies worth well over $1 billion, which it inherited from the Kaisers and the Nazis. These control 90% of the nation's lignite...
Author Ellin Mackay Berlin (Lace Curtain, Land I Have Chosen) wrote this book as a kind of sentimental duty to the past. By the time the upstart Mackays had become aristocratic, she herself outraged her Roman Catholic family in 1926 by marrying Songwriter Irving Berlin, son of Russian Jewish immigrants...