Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star Dust. In Texas' Scurry County, on a 1,700-acre tract leased by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped...
...Power. Actually, no real biography of Stalin is yet possible. How did he feel when his lifelong colleagues were sentenced to death in the Moscow trials? What did he say when his treaty partner, Hitler, attacked Russia? No one in a position to speak freely knows, and until such questions are answered, all a biographer can do is to rework the public record. Biographer Deutscher, an ex-Communist who now writes for British weeklies, has done this with taste and scholarship. Though less exciting and brilliant than Trotsky's acrid biography of Stalin, Deutscher's book is more...
Thrill-Murderer Nathan Leopold, 44, who has served 25 years of a 99-year sentence for the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks back in 1924 (Partner Richard Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936), got a reward for his volunteer guinea-pig service in wartime malaria experiments: commutation of his term to 85 years (making him eligible to apply for a parole in January...
Louis St. Laurent, the man who must deal with Canada's economic quandary, is Prime Minister of Canada almost in spite of himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...
Wellesley Wellington Vandeveer, onetime member of the Petroleum Administration for War and present delegate to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, was a cofounder of Allied Oil Co. 24 years ago. He and Partner Floyd Roy Newman started with $30,000 capital, most of which was borrowed. They fought off slashing competition, plowed back their profits and finally built the company into a $50 million-a-year business. Last year they sold out to Ashland Oil & Refining Co. for $12 million worth of the larger company's stock...