Word: multimillions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INLAND STEEL, seventh biggest U.S. steelmaker, with 1954 sales of $533 million, will soon launch a multimillion dollar expansion program to boost both its steel and coke capacity. Major item will be a battery of 87 coke ovens at its Indiana Harbor works...
DAIMLER-BENZ, one of Germany's biggest automakers with exports to 117 nations (1954 sales: $240 million), will soon start a separate U.S. subsidiary to help supply its expanding U.S. and Canadian markets. The company will set up its own multimillion-dollar factory somewhere in the Eastern U.S., start making heavy diesel trucks, tractors and industrial engines late this year. Mercedes-Benz cars will still be made in Germany...
Spry old (86) Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, down to the butt end of a multimillion-dollar fortune built on bared chests and flexed muscles, was bounced into a Jersey City jail by his estranged third wife for nonpayment of $9,000 in alimony and legal fees. Macfadden protested that being cooped up in jail would make him ill. Scoffed blonde, elegant 49-year-old Mrs. Macfadden No. 3: "Go on, he'll outlive us all." Grumbling that his income has dwindled to only $2,000 a month. Macfadden finally put up $10,000 bail, emerged from jail with...
BIGGEST URANIUM MINE in the U.S. is being developed by Anaconda Copper on the Laguna Indian reservation in New Mexico. AEC says that Anaconda's Jackpile Mine is the first multimillion-ton deposit to be found in the U.S. Reserves are estimated at 5,000,000 tons or more...
...Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys go for gats as Jerry announces to his hoods...