Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inclusion of Israel. But on Oct. 14 the Israelis advised Defense Minister Bourges-Maunoury of their intention to invade Sinai, asking at the same time for extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter the long-awaited occasion for intervention in Egypt." One interesting statement by the Brombergers that might salve some British consciences: until just before the Anglo-French ultimatum in Egypt, only Eden and Queen Elizabeth were privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet...
...defeat in the show ring. When she did lose, she was always in double harness, her talent slowed by a teammate. Going through her paces alone, she had no peer. All told, the "Million Dollar Hackney Mare" won about $25,000 in prize money, including $2,800 worth of silver plate and a trophy room full of cups and ribbons. Crowds cheered her entry into show rings as if she were Sarah Bernhardt...
...money in the first quarter of 1957 than in all of 1956. Chief reason for Chrysler's comeback: the styling, epitomized by flashy tail fins, which makes its 1957 line the most rakish on the road. At Chrysler nowadays, nothing is too good for the man responsible: handsome, silver-haired Virgil Max Exner, 47, the company's ace designer since...
Melted the Goose. In Memphis, safecrackers cut into a safe with acetylene torches, made off with 400 silver dollars, left the charred remains of $3,000 in cash and checks...
...Carrol Shanks sits behind Old John Dryden's huge mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...