Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
...clothing trade, it has been no secret that Society Brand is dying on the vine, has eked out a slim profit over the past four years only by virtue of tax carrybacks and rebates from more prosperous years. Kestnbaum plans to sink $2,500,-ooo into Society Brand over the next year to rebuild its sales...
...must to all little mags, came to London's highbrow monthly Horizon in December 1949, the magazine had beaten the actuarial tables and reached the advanced old age of ten years. Since there was always more red ink than red blood in its circulation (peak figure: 10,-ooo), Horizon owed much of its vitality to two men: 1) Angel Peter Watson, the millionaire son of a milkman, who blotted up some $20,000 in losses; and 2) Editor Cyril Connolly, the intellectual son of an army officer, whose pudgy face once reminded a reporter of "a cross between Beethoven...
COWS ARE FEMALE BOVINE CRITTERS. CATTLE INCLUDE PA, MA AND THE KIDS. THEREFORE TIME'S QUOTE OF OUR PREDICTION "7,OOO,OOO CATTLE . . ." IS WRONG. OUR FIGURE WAS FOR COWS ALONE. EXPECTED SLAUGHTER OF ALL CATTLE IS BETWEEN 39 AND 40 MILLION HEAD-FAR EXCEEDING 1953 RECORD SLAUGHTER OF 36.7 MILLION...
...once, Bob Young had been too cautious in a public statement. He had predicted that he would win the New York Central proxy fight by 700,000 to 1,000,000 votes. His actual margin: 1,067,-ooo, or 267,000 more than the disputed 800,000 shares voted in his favor by Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson. Central President William White, conducting his last stockholders' meeting in a hot, sticky office at the Albany railroad station, with blinds drawn for an air-raid drill, sadly made the official announcement that Young had bombed...