Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FLOYD ODLUM is nearing agreement with Howard Hughes on a deal to merge his Atlas Corp. with Hughes's RKO Pictures Corp., the parent holding company that Hughes retained after selling off its moviemaking subsidiary, RKO Radio Pictures. Under the deal, Odium will issue one share of Atlas stock for each 5% shares of RKO. In return, he will get no plants or production, but some important assets: $15 million worth of U.S. Government bonds and a $30 million capital-loss tax carryover, which Odium can apply against profits in other ventures...
Service Fire President Emil Chervenak (whose company last year paid parent C.I.T. $4,000,000 in dividends on its $2,000,000 capitalization) tried to smooth things over. "We hadn't realized we were so far off and are correcting it," he apologized. "This is a tremendous job because we are a policy factory, and as a result of this we are buried under tons of paper. Our financial competitors are still not doing it." But last week in New York and Oklahoma, the insurance commissions were quietly investigating to see whether their motorists were still being overcharged...
...generation ago hybridization of corn -combining the best properties of parent types into a better offspring-revolutionized U.S. agriculture, resulted in upping corn yields by 500 million bu. without putting a new acre into cultivation. Last week U.S. Agriculture Department scientists reported another breakthrough with another feed grain: the flat-leafed, tall-stalked sorghum that waves in many a dry field in the Great Plains. Within five years most of the more than 10 million acres now planted to grain sorghum will be switched to the new hybrid seed, thus raise sorghum output by 20% to 40% on the same...
When mothers and moppets began to show up last July to submit to Smith's new tests, two specially hired woman psychologists were on hand to watch for such things as "readiness to leave parent," "participation in game situation," and the like. They were interested also in muscular coordination ("Unduly slow movements?"), behavior patterns ("Cheerful?" "Sullen?"), and test behavior ("Restless?" "Fidgets?"). There was talk, too, of "group activity." Explained one psychologist : "We played a finger game called 'Eensy Teensy Spider.' We watched their responses when we said, 'You are now walking like a duck or hopping...
...plays Papa Saint-Forget, a crippled, bitter old vintner, and five quintuplet sons, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, and Etienne. The episodic action begins in Trezignan, a French village where some 39 years before the film begins, Papa Saint-Forget, wanting a daughter, has become the unhappy parent of the five boys. In an effort to revive the prosperity that was Trezignan's when the quints were babies and the glory of all France, a committee decides to round up the brothers for a gala celebration of their 40th birthday...