Word: rand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also posses a seemingly instinctive sense of comedy and timing. A a somewhat irrational restaurant customer, Peter Hugen is less effective because he is not quite in control of either his voice or his gestures. The other members of the cast, especially Michael Harwood, Earle Edgerton, and Ann Rand, are capable but overshadowed by Mintz and Lewis...
...ends our Senate," said the antigovernment newspaper the Rand Daily Mail. The way is clear for Strydom to abolish the franchise of the last of South Africa's 8,500,000 nonwhites, and to enact apartheid and the total "master rule" of whites that he has preached so long. The way is also clear, at some future time, to proclaim a republic and make Afrikaans the only official language of the land. If the prospect disconcerted other English-speaking South Africans than a few Black Sashers, they were too despairing, or too interested in not rocking the boat...
...American Airlines alone to support the market during the cardiac break, at one point was $163,000 in the hole. ¶John Coleman, 53, head of Adler, Coleman & Co. (53 stock issues, including American Tobacco, Armour, Motorola). ¶Benjamin Einhorn, 48, partner in Astor & Rose, which handles Sperry Rand and 14 other stocks...
...Henry Hale Rand, 46, became president of International Shoe Co. of St. Louis, largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, succeeding his late brother, Edgar E. Rand. The third son of Frank Rand, one of the com pany founders, President Rand got a B.A. in economics at Vanderbilt University in 1929, joined the family firm as a laborer in a leather warehouse. 16 years later was elected a director. In 1948 he became vice president in charge of merchandising and production...
Died. Edgar E. Rand, 50, president since 1950 of International Shoe Co. of St. Louis, the nation's largest shoe manufacturers (1954 sales: $246,800,000), with 64 factories, two rubber plants and a cotton mill; of a heart attack; in the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago...