Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers. He asked them to buy $300,000 in Compass stock at $10 a share, as a starter. As part of his sales talk, he gave out the first financial and circulation figures on the Compass' first-year operations. They gave a rare peek into the costs of starting metropolitan newspapers these days but they were hardly encouraging to would-be investors...
Only once a year does the public get a partial peek at the finances of the privately owned Ford Motor Co., which never reports its profits. Last week, in the abbreviated statement which it is required to file in Massachusetts, Ford disclosed that its assets at the end of 1949 had reached a record $1.3 billion, a gain of more than $194 million from the previous year. To the executive team which piled up the impressive score, the company last week gave some additional recognition, elected five vice presidents to the board of director:: John S. Bugas (labor relations), Lewis...
...Gregory Peek plays Ringo quietly and earnestly; his chaps do not slap and his spurs do not jingle. Nobody gallops in pursuit of anyone else, and there is a large mud puddle in the middle of the main town's main street. The supporting cast is large and lazy and authentic. "Gunfighter" is a western which deals in people--not just in firepower...
...Such an eminent bacteriologist as Johns Hopkins University's Professor Perrin H. Long has dismissed the whole subject of germ warfare as "bunk" (TIME, April 10). But last week the Army Chemical Corps's Major General Anthony ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne, gave the U.S. a quick peek behind the curtain of secrecy. Addressing a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Detroit, General McAuliffe hinted that the U.S. was hard at work perfecting new poison gases which would completely cripple an enemy's will to resist...