Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuxedos & Stocks. The $800 million that Bennett is pouring into the Peace project have already quickened a northern rush in anticipation of the power. British Columbia can muster some epic boomtown types. In Prince George, for instance, there is Contractor Ben Ginter, who arrived in 1949 with a stake of $1,500. He has run it to $20 million since, building highways and pulp mills, and a $250,000 hilltop house for himself that includes an indoor waterfall and swimming pool fed by a diverted mountain creek. While clearing the sites for the new pulp mills of Prince George, Ginter...
...Appaloosa. When two strong men stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
...about half their farm imports. Christian Herter, President Johnson's special representative for trade negotiations, has described the Common Market proposal as "very restrictive." The American Farm Bureau Federation wants the U.S. to pull out of the talks unless the Common Market makes a more generous offer. At stake is the $1.5 billion in annual sales of American farm products to the Common Market, which the U.S. fears the Europeans want to reduce...
...This year they will be close to $30 million. Now that we have reached the $1 billion sales mark, our Latin American investment is a smaller percentage of our entire structure, and the "mix" has changed toward high-technology enterprises. The whole company is bigger, and so is our stake in Latin America-and growing. We like it that...
...acre field before the bandstand listening to the loudspeakers, at one point sent his eleven-year-old son scampering for an engineer when he found a dead spot. Lennie and the boys weren't the only ones willing to sweat for their music. The audience started arriving to stake out the best spots at 9 a.m. on the day of the concert, first in New York City's free park-concert series, and by dusk something like 90,000 people had spread blankets and set up camp chairs around the park's Sheep Meadow. It was possibly...