Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lannan said that more than 20 unnamed friends of his had gradually bought more than 300,000 of the Milwaukee road's widely scattered 2,123,210 outstanding shares (present market price: 20¾ per share). He thought this slice large enough for effective control. Directors promised Lannan and Wirtz, who own almost 30,000 shares apiece v. 8,500 shares held by all other directors combined, seats on the board. Said Lannan's good friend and Milwaukee Board Chairman Leo Crowley: "We're happy to have a fellow like Pat on the board...
...week a UNESCO survey, "World Communications," totted up the world's daily circulation: 262 million, a sizable increase. The most impressive gains came in backward countries, where the drive against illiteracy has brought newspapers to African jungle villages and remote South Sea islands. The U.S. had the biggest slice of the world's daily circulation -more than 55 million-but in printing 344 daily copies per 1,000 inhabitants, it trailed behind Britain (609 per 1,000) and nine other countries, including Japan (with 399). To offset any smugness among newspaper men over the steady growth...
...Failure of Gamesmanship. Using paddles with soft, sponge-rubber faces that take the ping out of pingpong but slice off some wicked spins, the agile and tireless Japanese wasted no time taking the Swaythling Cup. They stuck stubbornly to their unorthodox "penholder" grip (which makes for an awkward backhand), but attacked so steadily that their opponents could seldom smash to their weak side. "Yoshi! Yoshi!" (Good! Good!) the partisan crowd cried each time a Japanese scored. Japanese women players stopped and bowed low every time they scored on a net cord shot or bounced a winning shot off the edge...
...martial Macedonian's. The picture presents two hours and 25 minutes of continuously colossal spectacle in CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound. There are 6,000 people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments of the Spanish army were rented for the battle scenes, and a sizable slice of Spain was borrowed. Three towns were taken over for incidental scenes. Europe was ransacked for theatrical supplies: 1,800 suits of Greek and Persian armor, 450 swords, 200 bows, 3,000 arrows, 6,000 short spears and 400 long, 1,200 shields, 42 chariots, 600 other pieces of antique...
...Trustbuster Stanley Barnes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) expressed concern because G.M.'s five auto divisions turned out 50.76% of all cars sold in the U.S. But G.M. keeps getting bigger. Though overall U.S. auto production was off 17% in the first two months of 1956, G.M. increased its slice of the market to 55%. Chrysler's share in the same two months dropped from 17.1%, its 1955 average, to 15%; Ford's output slid from 28.2% to 25%. American Motors and Studebaker-Packard each clung to 2.5% of total production...