Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cronies who was caught smuggling cattle into the country. The others were straight from bank and government records: that Rojas and his friends, with only a hint of collateral, used influence to obtain $4,286,170 in loans; that the Rojas family land company, starting with nothing but paper capital, pulled off a $148,000 profit within five months-and never paid a penny in taxes...
...Paper Plan. Behlen's big break came in 1947, when he designed a frameless corn crib made of corrugated wire mesh. Farmers jumped at it because it was so simple to assemble. Behlen borrowed from the RFC to pay for a bigger plant, netted $305,000 that year and paid off the loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels...
...Coliseum: Philco's Transac 52000, the first commercial all-transistor computer (rental fee: $28,000 to $40,000); Thomas Collators Inc.'s completely automatic rotary drum collating machine, which sorts and staples, detects misses or doubles, piles and packs up to 25,000 sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service's Oven-Hot Foods and Cold Buffet machines, which heat frozen dishes...
...elephants. After long confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, he goes to Africa to be near the great beasts-"the image of freedom and space"-and is horrified to see "this gigantic, clumsy natural splendor" being slaughtered to extinction "just to keep the world supplied with billiard balls and paper knives." He circulates a petition to outlaw the killing of elephants, and soon has made himself the standing joke of French Equatorial Africa. Only two people sign his petition: a drunk (Errol Flynn) and a prostitute (Juliette Greco). A missionary tries to reason with...