Word: samenesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Alaska will never be the same again," Governor Keith Miller declared jubilantly after last week's bidding for oil-drilling rights enriched his state's coffers by $900 million (see BUSINESS). Conservationists, for reasons of their own, fear that he may be right. In their understandable haste to...
A culture transplant poses the same difficulty as a heart transplant. It is socially as well as biologically instinctive to reject what is alien. One slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man'...
Then the results were announced. For the first six tracts, a combine of Gulf Oil, British Petroleum and its Alaskan subsidiary bid $97 million. Another tract, just southwest of Prudhoe Bay, brought the highest single bid of the day, submitted jointly by Amerada Hess and Getty Oil: $72,277,133...
As for Hanson, his original $10,000 investment in Winnebago has made him a multimillionaire. Anyone who spent $12.50 to buy a share of the public company's common stock in 1965 now has, after numerous splits and dividends, stock worth $2,250. Hanson's holdings have a...
At the same time, they have long wielded enough power to inhibit rivals from venture investment in Italy. The Italian stock market is controlled by about 20 financial companies of such interwoven ownership that their directors answer mainly to themselves. So few investors care for these conditions that the total...