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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...Payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Hard Way | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...partners (among them: Continental Airlines' President Robert Six; Howard Hughes's ubiquitous agent, Johnny Meyer; and General Aniline & Film's Chairman Jack Frye) had risked $75,000 on a tip Meyer got from a geologist who had previously tipped Meyer and Frank Sinatra to another payoff site (Sinatra's "Crooner No. i" well in Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Hollywood Wildcats | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Payoff. Big or little, investment companies have one major service to sell: their ability to buy stocks wisely. How well have M.I.T. and Keystone done? A "management rating" system devised by Hugh A. Johnson, a Buffalo broker, gives a clue. Johnson invested a hypothetical $10,000 in each of 35 funds, traced what happened to it over the 1938-48 decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: How to Keep a Buck | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...this, plus the movies, takes as big an investment as a regular cinemansion; one 2,000-car ozoner near Cincinnati cost $750,000. But the payoff is heavy and swift. Example: the atmosphere under artificial moonglow whets appetites so keenly that popcorn, hotdogs and hamburgers sell about four times as well at ozoners as in theaters. Some drive-ins can pay all expenses with the receipts from munching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All This, and Movies Too | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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