Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BELGIUM'S PETROFINA will move into U.S. oil industry by paying $25 million for independent Texas oil producer Panhandle Oil Corp. Petrofina, Belgium's biggest oil company and owner of a $125 million Canadian subsidiary, will be first European concern to buy U.S. oil properties outright since World...
...soared to a peak of 30½ before it eased off to 20 a few weeks ago. Much of the rise came after Sydney Albert, 49, of Akron, a promoter and juggler of corporations, got control of Bellanca 16 months ago. By outright purchase or trades for Bellanca stock, he gathered in dozens of small companies, paid out enough stock dividends to keep Bellanca stock going up and its holders happy. Few seemed worried that Bellanca lost $284,464 last year-until last week. Then the worries over the financial condition of Bellanca and Promoter Albert grew so great that...
...abuilding in Philadelphia and Dallas, the Sheraton empire now boasts 54 hotels, 25 more than the Hilton chain, although Hilton has 1,700 more rooms and grosses some $40 million more a year. All the Eppley hotels are in new territory for Sheraton, and all but three were sold outright. The others, Omaha's Fontenelle and Rome, Cedar Rapids' (Iowa) Montrose, will be leased by Sheraton...
...change, Fadeyev handed down a new line, appealed for less "socialist realism." At the sensational 20th Party Congress last February, Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (whose way of protesting the Stalinist regime had been to produce almost no creative work since he wrote The Quiet Don two decades ago) made an outright attack on Fadeyev, calling him a power-loving bureaucrat who practices the cult of personality. By praising Gorky in the highest terms, Sholokhov revived the old mystery of his death and Fadeyev's succession...
...comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete. ¶Though Germany has accumulated $2.3 billion in gold and dollar reserves, though it has an unused budgetary surplus of $1.4 billion gathering dust in banks, Schaffer is asking the U.S. for $2 billion in defense aid, half as an outright gift...