Word: teller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the by-line of Jackie Cochran and the big purse of Odlum's Atlas Corp. (oil, airlines, utilities, Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller store, movies) could not solve the wartime paper problem. But it might well help develop Liberty's new lease on life into a more successful pursuit of advertisers...
...Consultative Assembly France's suave Finance Minister René Pleven offered a proposal as deceptively harmless as a Teller mine: a capital tax to be levied on all fortunes exceeding 100,000 francs. Minister Pleven called it a "tax of national solidarity . . . consecrated to financing reconstruction." The rate would be 3% to 20%. Householders would be allowed 200,000 francs exemption. Payments would be made in four years, but immediate payment would earn a 4% discount...
...bank teller challenged the signature of the vanished Margaret Logan on a check. Police questioned Louise, as they had 24 years before. Detectives searched the house, as they had searched Jake Denton's. The cellar floor was untouched. But near an avocado tree in the backyard they found a mound of earth. Inside was the body of Margaret Logan. She had been shot in the back...
...tale has been told and retold in a score of tongues. His name, his cunning, and the basis of some of his adventures are discernible in Aesop's fables and in the Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France. The last of these formed the basis of the Flemish-Dutch poem from...
Hortense McQuarrie Odium, able board chairman and ex-president of Manhattan's swank women's specialty store, Bonwit Teller, ex-wife of Financier Floyd Odium, resigned her chairmanship. Mrs. Odium (who sent sales up from $3,500,000 to $10,000,000 while president) said: "I am not a business woman...