Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing the ribbon and medal of Britain's Order of Merit, rose to toast the Queen. "There have been a few times in my life," said Dwight Eisenhower, "when I have wished that the gift...
...Britain into the abyss of a new, destructive war, with all is terrible consequences for the population of the British Isles," Khrushchev wrote to Britain's Labor Party. "We hope that plans of organizing military intervention against peaceful Syria . . . will be condemned by the Labor Party." With the sole exception of Italy's fellow-traveling Pietro Nenni, Western Europe's Socialists rebuffed Khrushchev's overtures with scorn. "Given our conviction that it is you who threatens the peace," answered the Dutch Labor Party, "there is no basis for discussion between...
Today Ludwig is the sole owner of National Bulk Carriers, Inc., Universe Tankships, Inc., Seatankers, Inc., has a 58.7% interest in American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. To build ships for only $150 per d.w.t. (v. nearly $300 in the U.S.), he signed a lease on the old Imperial Japanese Navy shipyard in Kure in 1951 that runs to 1961, can be renewed to 1966. To fuel his fleet of more than 40 ships, which he sails with low-cost West Indian crews under the Liberian flag, Ludwig is building a 70,000-bbl.-a-day day refinery in Panama, also...
...years before he died, Founder George H. Hartford began the odd A. & P. system by leaving each of his five children equal shares of the business in the form of the George H. Hartford Trust. As sole trustees, he appointed his sons George L., a reticent financial wizard who carefully tested A. & P. coffee every morning, and John A., a gregarious merchandising genius (TIME Cover, Nov. 13, 1950). John loved to boast to banker friends: "We had 100% stockholder attendance at our last annual meeting...
After John died in 1951, at 79, George held a meeting with himself, and named A. & P. President Ralph Burger to replace John. With the death of George, Sole Trustee Ralph Burger now has one remaining responsibility: to dissolve the trust by distributing the stock, although what form this will take will not be known until George's will is probated. The ending of the trust turns 60% of the stock over to the heirs who can vote it, or sell it, although they have privately agreed not to sell any for three years...