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...plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon, but she prefers Grandpa Thor Storm. The name should prepare readers for the fact that he has noble Norwegian blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Igloo Reading | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...cultural exchange agreement. Last week, after three months of negotiations, they signed one which, if carried out in good faith, might be an important "beginning of a beginning" (as Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson put it). Under its terms the two nations undertake, during 1958 and 1959, to swap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Big Swap | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

This week it closed the third major deal of its move into U.S. oil with the purchase of the oil holdings of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., for about $20 million, in a cash and stock swap. This deal runs its oil reserves up to 40 million bbl., gas to 275 billion cu. ft., crude production to 10,000 bbl. a day, and refinery capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Belgian Invasion | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

TENNESSEE GAS Transmission Co., nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 27, 1958 | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Next, Getty says that Getty Oil will offer to swap its own stock for the 58% of Mission Development ,that it does not now own. The expected offer: one. Getty Oil share for 1⅓ Mission Development. If all goes through as expected, Getty Oil Co. will wind up with direct majority control of Tidewater. This would eliminate even the outside possibility that Getty could ever lose control of Tidewater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Merger for Getty? | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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