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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of buying such necessities, most of Scurry County's new-rich were living much as before and saving their money. As Joe York's neighbor, Arthur ("Booger Red") Townsend put it: "A man don't need no million dollars, all he needs is some comfortable circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Biggest Thing Yet? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

The Federal Trade Commission, which usually aims an antimonopoly broadside at an entire industry, last week drew a careful bead on just one man. Its target: lean, fast-talking Henry J. Taylor, 47, sometime businessman, author (Men and Power, Time Runs Out), radio commentator and onetime Scripps-Howard journalist. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT,NEW PRODUCTS: Monopoly on Paper? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Ford of Detroit made a deal with British Ford to buy the Guernsey holding company for $11,919,208. With control in its own hands, Ford intends to rehabilitate the overseas companies, hopes to make some profits for them and itself in the process.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Headache Powder | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In this fashion, Woolworth's spotlighted a building and improvement program on which it has spent $25,574,000 in the last two years. When the job is done, Woolworth's will have transformed itself completely into a medium-price variety chain. The company has already copied many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eight-Million-Dollar Baby | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Suggesting a left-handed biography of Berle himself, the story catalogues the rise to television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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