Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife's behest, he brought in a small sign which reminded him to "Keep Your Shirt On," and placed it on the table before him. Relaxed, nibbling on his tortoise-shell spectacles, at times almost hammily polite, he did not argue the fact that his law firm had represented United Tanker Corp.-a Chinese-financed firm which had bought surplus U.S. ships and shipped cargoes to Communist ports in 1949 and 1950. He was equally calm in the face of another fact: he is president of a philanthropic organization, China International Foundation, which control s United's stock...
Among the Big Three (Chrysler, Ford, and GM) with their large research departments, new models show the effects of both a horsepower race and a sort of shell game with styling tricks. GM has boosted horsepower on its Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac lines by using a tricky and expensive ($65.00) new carburetor. But since this extra power comes in only when the throttle is wide open, there are those who feel that the power increase is primarily for advertising purposes...
Massachusetts is hardly alone in the problem of who's going to take over the actual television stations themselves. Though almost all college authorities and educational officials are in favor of educational TV, very few are going to shell out on their own hook...
...military manpower-burrowed dismally into the Korean snow and mud, to wait for they knew not what. On the other side, 900,000 of the enemy did the same. Occasionally, on either side, a man died-a bullet in the brain, a mutilating date with a mortar shell, a ride to earth in a jetpropelled funeral pyre. But the dying settled nothing...
...select fraternity of corporations with gross sales of more than $1 billion, some new members were admitted last week. Latest additions, on the basis of 1951 tabs: International Harvester, Shell Oil, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (first rubber company to make the grade), Standard Oil of California, National Dairy, Republic Steel. Total membership...