Word: proprietorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported $4,000,000 plus an option for Street & Smith's owners on some 10% of Conde Nast's stock, Sam Newhouse assumed proprietorship of one of the oldest periodical publishers in the U.S. Established in 1855, Street & Smith prospered with an array of derring-do pulps from such prolific potboilers as Horatio Alger Jr., Ned Buntline, Josh Billings and Bill Nye, bought the early works of Booth Tarkington, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst and many others. Street & Smith writers added many a resonant name to the ranks of folk heroes: Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, Buffalo Bill. But with...
...revolution reached its most dramatic stage with Nautilus. After World War II and a brilliant and imaginative performance on the sea and in the air, the Navy turned slowly to the military potential of the atom. While the Air Force and its Strategic Air Command took over an urgent proprietorship in the atomic age, the Navy fought stoutly to preserve its great fleet, to keep a maximum of ships at sea. It fought the Air Force concept of long-range nuclear retaliation as immoral and stupid-and came perilously close to foreclosing its own future as anything...
...seven months, Elsie and Henry has made the sandwich shop a thriving business. Their popularity is a much a result of their proprietorship as of their food. "We feel at home here," Elsie says. "The boys come from good homes and like a sandwich or a piece of home-made pie before they go to bed. But sometimes they come in and have had a little too much, not food--you know. Then I have a Bromo-Seltzer for them. I have my own boys, and I know how they feel...