Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vargas' popular envoy in the U.S. and his stoutly pro-allied foreign minister during World War II. As a member of the conservative opposition after the war, he embarked on a career at the U.N. that led to presidency of the General Assembly in 1947. With the old partnership resumed, Brazilians now hope for dramatic economic action...
...House, to be named the Folketing (People's Assembly), instead of two; 2) the Folketing will have the right to surrender part of its authority to international bodies, e.g., NATO, the U.N.; 3) Greenland, island key to the Arctic cold war, will emerge from colonial status to full partnership in the Danish Commonwealth...
...rest of his life, with the pure, cold, scientific passion of a lepidopterist, he was true to butterflies. He even found a girl who was willing to spend her evenings in his "Bug Room," setting specimens and cataloguing his collection. His subsequent marriage became an insect-ridden partnership. Between them, Newman and his wife built their hobby of butterfly-farming into a paying business...
Another Kaufman case: a businessman, member of a partnership, liked his work and did it well when the office was not too rushed. But on the busiest days, his partners complained, just when they needed him most, he had to lie down in the afternoon. It turned out that on those days he had a cheese sandwich and a malted milk sent into the office, whereas on normal days he ate a lunch free of milk products and drank black coffee. The cheese was knocking...
...made Harold's Club the biggest business in Reno and the biggest gambling house in the U.S. Last year an average of 10.000 customers jammed into Harold's every day. bet well over $100 million over the year that they could beat Ray Smith's partnership with chance. Upwards of 30% of them succeeded. But from the rest. Harold's Club grossed an estimated $15 million for a net which outsiders put at $2,000,000. Last week, as the big Nevada tourist season got under way, Ray Smith predicted that 1953 would be his best...