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...With that as a base, he diversified into gas and oil, went on to take over companies making cables, power shovels, and cranes (Industrial Brownhoist Corp.). With cash from his growing empire (now called Penn-Texas Corp.), he recently bought 80,000 shares of machine tool maker Niles-Bement-Pond, whose stock was selling a few points below the $25 per-share value of its working capital. Silberstein eventually got 51% control and forcibly installed himself as president...
...Largest: the Ikenobo (Priest's Pond) school, founded in 1525 A.D., with 4,000,000 followers...
...year-old former New York City schoolteacher had been drifting aimlessly since his retirement 18 months ago. Then one day at the institute, "I looked out and saw the frozen pond. I realized what I had been blind to, and I wanted to paint what I saw there, to preserve it." Now an ardent painter, the ex-teacher has also been working on an invention to simplify the building of small houses. Says he of the institute: "It has opened whole vistas for me. Almost too many, in fact...
...floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn't look long. I lit out for the cellar...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...