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...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...
...grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria this week, a multimillion-dollar show heralded the biggest auto news of the year: General Motors' 1954 line of cars. To retool for the 25 new production models and build eleven experimental cars, G.M. spent $350 million...
...code (the rules and regulations of city departments), became legislative counsel for the U.S. Senate, wound up as dean of Columbia University's faculty of law. In 1920, Equitable hired him as second vice president and sent him off to Europe to salvage what he could of the multimillion trust funds it had been required to set up in banks to guarantee its policies. Though the assets of many of the banks had been confiscated by warring armies, Parkinson retrieved the funds, a feat that brought him the society's vice-presidency in 1925, its presidency...