Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the rural highways of Massachusetts, accordingly, paper placards have been posted by the state Department of Public Works. The "Leaf Tour" system--with its country signs like "Leaf Tour No. 6, 41 miles"--is very complex and elaborately worked...
...Voting Machine, Utah Radio Products, Nesco (house-wares). Last week, totting up the results, the Wall Street Journal figured that Wolfson may have lost on the deals. This was denied by Wolfson's business lieutenants, who contended the sales indeed had been profitable. Losses, if any, were only paper losses...
Everything that Wolfe thought or felt or feared or hoped for had instantly to be put on paper. And such was his certainty of genius and conviction that everything he wrote would be pored over for years to come, that he scarcely ever dashed off a hasty or unconsidered line. Even letters that were never intended to be sent were rewritten, annotated, polished. This bulky volume of his Letters is the record of a man's life, from the childish scrawl of an eight-year-old ("It has been raining here for two or three days") to the moving...
Tied to a stake, wearing the paper miter of heresy, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned to death in the year 1314. But before he died, his stentorian voice cried out a terrible curse against his enemies: Pope Clement V. his prosecutor, Guillaume de Nogaret, and the coldly handsome King Philip IV of France. Historians still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans...
...holds shares in some 700 corporations all over the world, with an estimated book value of $46.5 million. While details of the portfolio are denied even to stockholders by the close-mouthed management, the company is known to hold blocks in Bendix Aviation, General Electric, General Motors, St. Regis Paper, Socony Mobil Oil. In addition the company holds another $54.3 million in short-term investments (mainly British and French treasury bills), which together with real estate, cash and materials bring net assets to a minimum of $290 million, exclusive of canal holdings...