Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archduke Franz Joseph of Habsburg asked a New York court to settle a royal family row. He wanted exactly $949,999 from his brother and sister-in-law, Archduke Anton and Archduchess Ileana. That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
...trouble, said K-F, had been high-cost inventories, high overhead, price cuts, and a strike at Bendix Aviation Corp. which had stopped K-F production for two weeks. But K-F's real trouble was that the auto shortage was about over, and its share of the market had slipped from 5% in 1948'$ first half...
...best women tennis players in the U.S. were on view last week in a tournament at the Essex County Club in Manchester, Mass., and they had the stage to themselves. The men, who usually get the lion's share of attention from press and public, were playing elsewhere (at Newport, R.I.*). The galleries at Manchester were small, but those on hand had plenty to see. The net impression: the reign of the two current tennis queens, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough (26) and U.S. Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont (31), is seriously threatened for the first time in three years...
...nine starts, she had not won a race. Last week she made up for all that. In the second and deciding heat, Driver Egan kept her in hand all the way and she was first by five lengths. Miss Tilly took down the third largest winner's share ($37,617) of the second largest purse in Hambletonian history...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., which has had its share of top echelon troubles during the past year, last week got a new president: Roy T. Hurley, director of manufacturing engineering at the Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...