Word: tenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TENNER R. JONES...
Businessmen will probably soon have to take into account a new cost factor: an increase in the price of steel. The increase will be based on 1) inevitable wage boosts and 2) the need for cash for expansion. Last week Ernest Tenner Weir, chairman of National Steel, fifth biggest producer, touched off the campaign for higher prices...
...business where money talks, Brando is now being hailed as "a real drag-'em-in big-tenner like nobody since Clark Gable." And his pictures have won loud, critical huzzahs as well as some stentorian box-office grosses. Last week Brando completed a seventh, Désirée, a film version of Annemarie Selinko's 1953 bestselling novel, in which he plays Napoleon. Twentieth Century-Fox boldly predicts that it may take in up to $10 million. "Two more like Brando," said one producer, "and television can crawl back in the tube...