Word: solee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Financial Genius Harriman, who was never accused of sentimentality, this was the highest form of compliment. It was deserved. Taking over the fortune at 58, to become the world's richest woman, Mrs. Harriman entered a special line in her biography in Who's Who in America: "Sole heir upon death of husband to estate appraised at about $100,000,000, of which...
...respects. Ben Youssef summoned his old enemy Hadj Thami El Glauoi to Paris, and 80-year-old El Glaoui took ship to comply. The four-member throne council so painstakingly created by the French to preclude the return of Ben Youssef now declared that the council's sole purpose was to reinstall him on the throne, and offered their resignation in a body...
Since 1919. when Henry Ford bought out his minority stockholders, Ford Motor Co. has been steered only by Ford and his family. This week, Ford Foundation trustees announced that the Ford family will give up sole control of the company, turning the last family-managed industrial colossus in the U.S. into a public corporation. Early next year, when the Foundation puts on sale the first blocks of stock (nearly 7,000,000 voting shares), the family will yield 60% of the voting rights in Ford management to investors...
...will arbitrarily control 40% of the voting rights. Each share of the old voting B stock held by the family will be exchanged for 21 shares of the new B stock. Thus the family will get a 1.74% bigger stock equity in the company in exchange for relinquishing sole control. When and if the new B shares pass out of Ford family hands, they will be converted share-for-share into voting stock...
Montmartre with a serenity that belied the circumstances of his life. In 1935 he married buxom Lucie Pauwels, who put water in his wine, dropped an iron curtain about him, appointed herself the caretaker and sole distributor of his flagging...