Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand total of paper profits from the four companies, based on last week's stock prices, came to $300,691,246. The companies' biggest worry now is the angry glint in the eye of John Diefenbaker, the country's new Prime Minister, which might lead to a royal commission to find out who all the lucky insiders were...
...Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly policed the Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co., and waitresses and farm hands all got a share of profits that now total $45.9 million...
...course of discussing technical questions, Stassen had handed Zorin an informal working paper which detailed a highly tentative U.S. proposal for setting up zones of aerial inspection, one of which included Western Europe. When British and French diplomats-to say nothing of the apprehensive West Germans-heard of this, they were quick to file complaints...
...strokes, make asymmetry his basic rule, keep the painting flat on the surface. "When one does not represent things, a place remains for the Divine," he jotted in his notebook. He later simplified his palette to primary red, blue and yellow, then, working with charcoal, ruler and strips of paper, bound and balanced the areas with a grid of black lines that became his trademark...
...letter writer last week. Said another: "You are a splendid example of the fact that in order to have free speech we must tolerate its abuse by idiots." In a recent charity appearance before 62,500 people at Soldier Field, Faye fans pelted him with coins, ice cream, paper cups and jeers. Grabbing a microphone, he bellowed: "I want you to know that whatever you think of me I think...