Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...implied tribute was impressive. Though individual collectors have paid similar sums for Wyeth, a museum is in effect making a finding that its purchase has permanent value, must answer both to posterity and a board of trustees for the accuracy of its judgment...
...Winslow Homer, also by Goodrich, reverently explores the austere, hermit master, who wrote to a would-be biographer: "I think that it would probably kill me to have [a biography] appear, and as the most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public, I must decline to give you any particulars in regard...
...come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...
...stockholders would lose, in taxes and stock values, about $5 billion. Said the court, applauding Du Font's presentation, and needling the Government: "The testimony [offered] by the defendants, that of men of wide experience and great responsibility for investing funds and marketing securities, must be given great weight. The type of evidence introduced by the Government, consisting of the testimony of economists without practical experience or management responsibility, cannot overcome the weight of such testimony." Then, borrowing almost the same words used earlier by Du Pont attorneys, Judge LaBuy knocked down the Government plan as "unnecessarily harsh...
...balance of payments that is causing an outflow of gold from the U.S., steadily raising the amount of U.S. gold earmarked for European nations. The time has come, said Anderson, for the rest of the world to give a helping hand to the U.S. Said he: "There must be a reorientation of the policies of the earlier postwar period...