Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London's Daily Express predicted that the highlight of Princess Margaret's 24th-birthday party, an intimate royal affair at Balmoral Castle, would be an announcement of her engagement to the Honorable Colin Christopher Paget Tennant, 27, heir to a barony and a multimillion-dollar chemical fortune. With gossipists all agog, the Express's guess proved a total fizzle. Arriving at Balmoral, young...
This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...
...investments. The companies stretch from Canada to Mexico, from coast to coast, and are as varied as a pirate's treasure (see map). No sooner has he bought a ship line than he wants a railroad, no sooner a candy company than he gets a grocery. Murchison juggles multimillion-dollar deals with the unconcern of a racetrack teller counting $2 bills. In Texas, where such a man is admiringly known as a "wheeler-dealer," Clint Murchison is the biggest wheeler-dealer of them all. Says Sid Richardson: "Murchison is the kind of man that tells you, 'Here, hold...
WALT DISNEY has made a multimillion-dollar deal with the American Broadcasting Co. to put his entire menagerie on TV. Starting in October, Disney will turn out a weekly, hour-long cartoon show with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck & Co., has agreed to do a minimum of 26 each year under a long-term contract...
SHIPPING Mogul Aristotle S. Onassis TIME, Jan. 19, 1953) and former Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Joseph E. Casey are among nine individuals and six corporations indicted on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in multimillion-dollar deals to buy surplus U.S. ships after the war. The Government charge: the ships were bought for foreign owners through the use of U.S. corporations whose control was misrepresented, in violation of U.S. law forbidding sale of U.S. ships to aliens...