Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actor Gilbert, 29, was born into a vaudevillian's family in upstate New York, was early farmed out to a troupe of South American aerialists. and turned to comedy when he plunged through the safety net in a 65-ft. circus fall. An ex-fighter pilot, Gilbert sings well enough for light opera, can play five musical instruments, juggle, dance and do acrobatics. He will probably be around TV for quite a while...
...Events everywhere seem in conspiracy. As seen from Indo-China, Geneva is an impressive display of Communist strength and Western weakness. The humility of the French empire before Chou Enlai, the calculated susceptibility of London, the drift and confusion of Washington all contribute to the net effect of Red ascendancy, and that is in itself the decisive Red advantage in Indo-China...
...agency $210 million in various loans and carrying charges, the agency has now got back $179 million, for a technical loss of $31 million. However, RFC has also collected $69 million in interest on its loans to B. & O. over the years, thus actually winds up with a net profit on the deal of $38 million...
...Says he: "We've got to keep getting stronger." Trucker Riss is already pretty strong. His Riss & Co., Inc. is one of the world's longest trucking lines (37,000 miles of routes between Denver and the East Coast), the best moneymaker in the business (1953 net before taxes: $2,882,919), and the fifth largest in terms of total operating revenues ($29,114,678). Last week Riss made his bid to become stronger than ever. He began to take delivery on one of the largest private-equipment orders in the history of trucking-$14 million worth...
History. In Christ's time, Mayan Indians, history's most brilliant aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding...