Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than a thousand years near ancient Vravron, a fertile place on the east coast of Attica about 24 miles east of Athens. Herodotus mentioned the temple. So did Aristophanes, who hinted at orgies there. In Euripides' play Iphigenia in Tauris, the goddess Minerva tells Iphigenia and Orestes to take the statue of Diana that they had snatched from a temple in Tauris on the Black Sea and set it up at Vravron...
Losses & Jets. Any settlement may take some time, since T.W.A., owned 78.2% by California's fabulous Howard Hughes, is in the worst financial shape of any major U.S. airline. On last year's balance sheet, the accountants listed a net loss of $1,600,000, despite a 9.7% jump in revenues to a record $263.7 million. For the first nine months this year, the loss is $1,800,000, although other major lines are well in the black. More important, T.W.A. has borrowed so heavily from banks and insurance companies that it has rigid restrictions...
...Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, which are going ahead with their studies, already have in hand a report on the operational aspects of a merger. It was Delaware & Hudson President William White and fellow railroaders who called executives of the seven roads together at Cleveland to discuss what steps to take if the Central-Pennsy merger goes through. The most obvious: meet merger with merger...
Because Mason views the updating of FHA rules as a continuing task, the new minimum standards are published looseleaf, allowing builders to take out pages and insert new quality housing regulations as FHA keeps on keeping housing up-to-date...
...sales and successfully weathered the recession
(third-quarter sales of $66,352,321 v. $60,759,386 in 1957).
Successor: to be named by Dec. 31.