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...Ford Motor Co., whose financial operations have always been clouded in secrecy, has long insured itself by setting aside a portion of its earnings to build up a fund against losses. Last week, Ford decided to buy its insurance on the outside. Through Chicago insurance brokers Marsh & McLennan, Inc., the company took out a policy with the Factory Insurance Association, an organization of 99 stock insurance companies. The policy, for $1.6 billion, is believed to be the biggest single block of insurance ever issued. Estimated premium: $1,600,000. Marsh & McLennan's probable cut as brokers...
...same company for nine years when, in 1945, he was admitted to Rockland State Hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia (severe mental derangement, with delusions of persecution). By year's end he was on the job again: the hospital director declared Bragg "sufficiently recovered to operate a motor vehicle." He was confined for another attack...
...four in Paris. Price: $1,388.10. ¶ Pan American: A "ten-day special." Four days in England, including London, Oxford, Stratford-on-Avon and Warwick Castle; four days in Paris, including a trip to Versailles. Price: $617. ¶ Sabena: Two weeks in Belgium, Holland, England and France, including a motor trip through Holland, excursions to Windsor Castle and Versailles. Price: $642. ¶ Scandinavian: A 23-day tour taking in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lucerne, Interlaken and Geneva, for $715; also a special two-week trip to Finland's Olympic Games in July...
...best, by Manhattan's House of Travel: Europe on $10 a day, with six optional routes that can be combined (at a nominal extra charge) into any number of variations. Minimum trip is ten days; prices include hotels, three daily meals and tips, land transportation and motor-coach sightseeing...
When Franco defeated the Loyalists, El Campesino was a division commander. At the last possible moment, he escaped to North Africa in a motor launch, made his way to France and got a hero's welcome from the French Communists. Next he was sent to Moscow, where he was lionized and appointed to the Frunze Academy, the U.S.S.R.'s most important military school. Against his will, he was to be groomed for the Russian army. To his disgust he was forced to accept a new title and name: "Komisaro Piotr Antonovich...