Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...America, including Ford and Edison. She has also been to the White House and met most of the presidents of her life-time: Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge. Before I proceed to the questions I asked, I must mention that her secretary, Miss Thompson, spoiled on her palm every word I uttered. The interview follows...
OSTHEIM (Count von Ostheim) Palm Beach...
...fishing boats. Said he: "There's a need for more vacation facilities-a human need. When I was 22 I decided Florida would never develop a tourist business and passed up a chance to be in on the ground floor there. Then I went on to figure that Palm Springs and Las Vegas were desert sand traps and always would be. I don't want to miss the boat again...
...size of the mother country, and half again as populous. Booming Congo exports provide the dollars and pounds that make the Belgian franc one of the world's hardest currencies. Belgians drink Congo coffee, wear shirts made of Congo cotton, wash them with soap made from Congo palm kernels. Without the mighty Congo, little Belgium might go broke; with it, a nation of 9,000,000 still counts as a world empire...
...Union Miniére du Haute-Katanga (UMHK) has a concession of 13,000 sq. mi., larger than Belgium itself. It pays its principal stockholder, the government, $50 million a year in taxes, its private investors $25 million. Then there is Huilever, which has a palm-oil concession of more than 4,000,000 acres...