Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian oil properties. In its anxiety to get an Austrian treaty signed, the West was willing, as late as 1954, to accept Article 35. Actually, the article was superseded last month when Austrian Chancellor Julius Raab flew to Moscow and agreed to buy back the German assets with a ransom of $2,000,000 cash, 10 million tons of oil and $150 million worth of manufactured goods in ten years. Russian Ambassador Ivan I. Ilyichev insisted that Article 35 remain in the treaty, on the ground that Raab's deal with Moscow was purely bilateral, and no business...
...Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
...novelist turned out a book a year. He could make a living at it. Now a novelist writes a book every three years because he is doing things in between." Many writers teach, e.g., Lionel Trilling, Wallace Stegner, Katherine Anne Porter. Margaret Cousins, Karl Shapiro and John Crowe Ransom edit magazines. Some write for the movies, where it is easy to forget the novel-writing urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living by poetry in the early 1950s-Robert Frost and Ogden Nash. But Frost has also taught and lectured. And Nash says: "You can make...
...Rebecca, 9 (daughter of Orson Welles), frolicking at Lake Tahoe, Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, with her fourth husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, in tow, journeyed to nearby Reno for the climax of a Versailles among divorce settlements. Yasmin was the prize. For her, Prince Aly signed away a princess's ransom of the estimated $500 million fortune of his aging (77) father, Ago Khan, who dotes on Yasmin and will treasure her as one of his four heirs.* To Rita will come more than $1,500 a month for Yasmin's support until she comes into her inheritance. In return...
...slave of the people, and today I free myself for eternal life. But this people to which I was a slave will no longer be a slave to anyone. My sacrifice will remain forever in your soul, and my blood will be the price of your ransom...