Word: shell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LOSS RULES will be tightened by Internal Revenue Service. New ruling knocks out corporate shell companies, which are no longer in business but are peddled to profitable concerns for their heavy tax-loss carryovers. From now on, companies must be actively engaged in business at time of sale to qualify for tax losses...
...unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar shell catches him in the leg, and he is invalided back to Milan. She is transferred to the same hospital. Days she takes his temperature; nights she makes it soar. When he goes back to his unit, she goes away to have their baby...
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (Powell and Pressburger; Rank) is a good sea story, not very well told; but there are moments when it holds, like a sea shell, the soundIng memory of the waves Britannia used to rule...
...twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
Last week General Nasution and Premier Djuanda seemed to be intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...