Word: option
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Investments. Born in the British Columbia mining town of Moyie (pop. 225), McMahon started as a hard-rock diamond-driller, drifted to Alberta and formed his own drilling company there before the province's oil play began. He took an option on a promising piece of Alberta land and brought in one of the province's first major oil wells at Leduc in 1947. Since then, he has plowed his oil earnings into a steadily successful search for more oil and gas. His companies now own or control hundreds of wells, hold leases on some...
...slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston Cigarettes has paid the bills for the past two years and has an option for three and a half years more. Says Bob: "A lot of other sponsors want to get in too. Show business is like the stock market-when you're hot, everyone wants a part of you. But when you're cold, they all act like...
...gallery of top pop writers with recent hits to their credit: Bob Merrill, 34, who turned out three top-ten hits in 1954-55 (Mambo Italiano, Make Yourself Comfortable and Tina Marie), has now gone Hollywood in a big way with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps...
President Loew, who had spent 35 years working his way up through the company founded by his father, reported that he had an option to buy 40,000 shares of Loew's stock, "which in my opinion is sufficient incentive, if one is required. I resent the insinuation." Furthermore, said Loew, "I bought 1,000 shares last week just to keep you happy...
...HYRC head has not limited his activities to thwarting the Political Forum; he has also tried to take advantage of talks scheduled by the Conservative Club. Since he seems to operate under the theory that the HYRC has an option on any Republicans speaking before undergraduate groups, Thomson tried to persuade the Conservative Club to co-sponsor all its planned GOP talks. Failing to achieve this openly, Thomson now seems to have appealed to Washington for help. For when the past president of the Conservative Club sought to have Senator Bridges speak under its auspices, instead of the Political Forum...