Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money & Motels. As a civil servant, Mattei was appointed head of Mussolini's nearly defunct oil exploration agency in 1945, with orders to liquidate it. Instead he poured money into research and discovered vast fields of natural gas in the Po Valley. Today ENI gas, pumped through 3,100 miles of ENI's own pipelines, supplies 2,500,000 Italian families and 2,000 factories...
...linear accelerator 220 ft. long that turns out electrons with 700 million electron volts. The projected two-mile installation is expected to generate electrons with 15 billion volts at the start. Later, the scientists hope, it can be souped up to 40 billion volts. If Congress votes the money which the President wants, the accelerator should go into operation in about six years...
...heroine of course cannot raise that kind of money-but the public can and does. Aroused by the brave little woman's battle with the corporate dragon, millions of televiewers produce a deluge of dimes for a fight-the-villain fund. With Odyssean shrewdness, Kovacs pretends to yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could...
...presidents of both the New York Exchange and the American Stock Exchange denied that stocks were booming on borrowed money. Said the New York Stock Exchange's G. Keith Funston: "There is no evidence of excessive use of credit in the market...
...Lucas, an Austrian immigrant with a vague theory that oil is locked under salt domes. He started drilling near Beaumont, Texas and in 1901 struck Spindletop. Within weeks, oilmen there struck no less than six gushers that could produce more oil than the rest of the world combined. More money was lost than gained in the ensuing land rush, but Spindletop spouted 50 million bbl.. spawned three great oil-producing companies: Humble, Texas...