Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moneymaker. The son of a back-country Swiss doctor, Ditisheim became a Basel banker specializing in international finance. He made his first killing in 1931 arranging a $100 million debt payment by Russia to Germany. Six years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying...
...example, Silver Shield System, Inc. opened its doors in New York 20 months ago, was soon handling $7,000,000 annually, had plans for expanding nationwide. Fortnight ago New York State Attorney General Jacob Javits capped a year of investigation by charging that Silver Shield had engaged in "false and misleading advertising," and "commingled" clients' money with its own. Far from balancing anyone else's budget, it could not even balance its own; it had a deficit of $100,000. As Javits moved for an injunction against the company for fraudulent practices, Silver Shield, a Delaware corporation, announced...
...Louis Symphony in the first ten U.S. orchestras, with a fine musical reputation, a healthy budget of $375,000, and about 4.000 subscribers. Last week Golschmann was proudly showing visitors his most recent acquisition-not a canvas, but a 6-in.-by-8-in. silver plaque on which was the autograph of each of the 24 musicians who have been with him during his 25 St. Louis years. Says he proudly: "The number of us who have been together so long shows a great stability in our orchestra...
...Reserve Mining Co., owned by Republic Steel and Armco, will have its 3,750,000-ton taconite processing project at Babbitt and Silver Bay, Minn. in full production...
...manufactured from leavened grain. The Old Testament prohibition against cooking a kid in its mother's milk is extended in Jewish homes to maintaining separate dishes for meat and dairy products. Explains Housewife Dorothy Tresley, an M.A. in educational psychology: "I have 4½ sets of dishes and silver: meat, dairy, just a few parve, or neutral pieces, and a special meat set and dairy set for Passover. The girl who comes in to help me isn't Jewish, so I mark my shelves and drawers to keep her from mixing meat and dairy things. Sure...