Word: parcelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degree in sugar engineering at Louisiana State University, then went into the family sugar-trading firm of Galban Lobo. Soon Lobo was on his own, eventually started buying mills as the best protection for a speculator. Five months ago he bought his latest and most impressive parcel: a $24.5 million complex of Cuban mills and other assets called the Hershey properties, once held by the chocolate-makers and since 1946 by Cuban Atlantic Sugar...
Polo & Fruit Trees. The typical U.S. highway invasion begins with rumor. After engineers agree on where the road will go, rumor is confirmed by the appearance of a smiling but noncommittal appraiser, who scrutinizes each parcel of property along the right of way and then disappears. Next comes the negotiator, who operates shrewdly and by a well-tested procedure...
Eager to top Hoffa, McDonald last week unwrapped a gaudy parcel of his own: three-month vacations for steelworkers every five years, in addition to the regular yearly vacations of from two to three weeks. Striking the statesmanlike stance that union presidents assume when explaining how what is good for their unions is good for the country, McDonald argued that three-month vacations would help ease the "disemployment" caused by increasing automation...
...Defense Department, which in effect sets U.S. military policy by compromise, and ends up letting each separate service go pretty much its own way. Doolittle and Gavin suggest that an integrated staff of military careermen standing above service rivalries could develop an overall U.S. war plan and parcel out service responsibilities within the framework of that plan. Jimmy Doolittle used the classical description of such an organization: "general staff...
...Barti persuaded Barzilai to burn the receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels had changed the throne into stones because the package was opened without permission...