Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuart portrait of George Washington, his 31st successor, Harry Truman, took one look at the picture and said: "He hasn't got his wooden teeth." Art experts called in a dental expert with calipers to measure Washington's nose, upper lip and chin, then compared the findings with similar measurements of other Stuart portraits. His verdict: President Truman is undoubtedly right; Stuart painted this portrait with the famous dentures missing...
Said RFC Boss W. Stuart Symington: "It comes about as close to bribery as you can get." He was talking about the latest mess he has uncovered in RFC in connection with the $15,100,000 loan to Texmass Petroleum Co. (TIME, April 24, 1950), now Texas Consolidated Oils. Symington charged that Allen E. Freeze, former RFC official, had taken a $22,500-a-year job with the oil company while on RFC's payroll and while the agency was considering the loan, damned by the Senate Banking Subcommittee as a "bailout" for big banks and Massachusetts insurance companies...
...last week from their price peaks. Malayan tin dropped to $1.14½ a lb.-a 41% slump in four months-because the Reconstruction Finance Corp., buyer of all U.S. tin, had stopped buying. It is selling its stockpiled tin to U.S. users at $1.06 a lb. RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington hinted last week that world prices have dropped about enough and the U.S. might soon start buying again. This would be a big relief to some U.S. State Department officials, who are worried that Symington's tin squeeze is putting unbearable economic pressure on Bolivia where tin represents...
...Stuart D. D. Pearl, 1'35, 1 Garden Court, Middle Temple, London, E.C. 4, England...
...most conspicuous example is tin, controlled by a cartel run by tin men of Great Britain, Belgium, Holland and Bolivia. After Korea, tin jumped from 78¾? a lb. to $1.82, forcing the RFC to step in and do all the buying for the U.S. Said RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington: "They murdered us on prices." To stop the slaughter, RFC went on a buyers' strike in March, and tin settled to about $1.50. Two weeks ago, Symington announced the U.S. would not pay more than $1.36 for tin, last week cut the price another...