Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Fruit has to quit in Guatemala, that will liquidate an investment of some $30 million for the parent company in Boston. But for Guatemala's 13,000 best-paid agricultural workers, and for 6,000 best-paid railroad workers, it will be an even greater disaster...
...second is the American debut of Leslie Howard's son, Ronald. Although physically he is a dead ringer for his illustrious parent, he lacks his father's theatrical polish, drastically overacting for at least two of the three acts...
...sank its first well, Creole has invested $767 million, and the investment has paid off handsomely. On recent annual grosses of around $500 million, Creole creamed off some $155 million in profits after taxes. Alone, it accounts for more than a third of the consolidated net income of its parent & owner, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world's largest oil organization...
...letter to the editors, a proud parent or doting grandparent will often enclose a picture of the small fry around the house mimicking the TiME-reading habit of the grownups. I thought that most of these pictures were mailed back, but recently we discovered that a researcher had saved a batch of the ones she liked best...
World War I, the 20th Century's parent catastrophe, echoed faintly when Friedrich Wilhelm, the Hohenzollern crown prince of old Germany, and Henri Philippe Péetain, Marshal of France, died within four days. They had faced each other across the mass slaughter at Verdun; each, after his own fashion, had tried to make his deal with the mass brutality of Naziism that came after, and each died disgraced...