Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Phumiphon, who had just returned from his honeymoon. The music-loving king (he sold five songs to a Broadway musical show now in rehearsal) lifted a nine-tiered crown onto his head as army & navy guns fired 101 salutes and the temple bells of every monastery in his kingdom rang seven times. He thus became Rama IX, King of Siam...
...father & son founders, shrewd Chairman Louis I. Pokrass, 50, and brawny, bustling 26-year-old President Harvey L. Pokrass, did more than survive. They parlayed a $100,000 stake into a business which, in 1950's first quarter, turned out 60,000 sets, grossed $8,000,000 and rang up a tidy $200,000 in profits. By last week Tele King was among the top ten U.S. television producers...
...last week Merchant Nguyen and his family were gathered around the television set in the master's bedroom at Le Perreux waiting for the 9 o'clock news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people...
Another was the opinion that it was the West itself which provoked Russia into her truculent attitude-through such steps as the Truman Doctrine-and that it was not Stalin but Churchill, in his famous Fulton speech, who "rang down the Iron Curtain." Lattimore's policy memorandum last autumn to the State Department, which McCarthy cited as evidence of Lattimore's disloyalty to the U.S., did not prove any such thing as disloyalty, but it did prove that Lattimore was still on the side of a soft policy that could result only in a Russian victory in Asia...
...Carter hopes to step out ahead of other West Coast retailers. Though Broadway's gross was down 5.6% in 1949, its net of $1,243,202 was up 7.3%. Ed Carter hopes to move them both up this year. His next objective: to pass Bullock's, which rang up $106 million in sales last year...