Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced at a congressional hearing but barred from the first trial by Judge Samuel Kaufman, was admitted to the second trial by Judge Henry Goddard. Hiss, who had a Ford roadster, had bought a new Plymouth. Said Chambers: "He wanted to get rid of the Ford. He proposed to turn it over to the Communist Party for the use of some poor organizer . . . Later Mr. Hiss told me that he had turned the car over according to an arrangement made between him and J. Peters." If the Government could prove that such a transfer had actually taken place, the evidence...
...limestone reef some 6,500 ft. down. Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest oil leaseholder on the continent, had once held leases all over Scurry, but had let most of them lapse. Even the first wells drilled in what later proved to be the heart of the pool did not turn out well. Not until November 1948 did Standard of California's subsidiary, Standard of Texas, bring in its first big well to start the boom...
...headaches from its foreign holdings, less than its share of profits. A complicated corporate setup has not helped. Much of the stock of eleven European and Middle Eastern Ford companies is owned by the Ford Investment Co., Ltd. of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, a company which in turn is owned by Ford Motor Co., Ltd. of Britain, in which the U.S. company has a 59% interest...
Scripter-Director-Producer Robert Rossen's efforts to keep Stark from being a facsimile of the late Huey Long often turn the character into a colorless man who lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster. But when Actor Crawford is allowed to swing around in the role, he has some fine scenes-notably, the seedy politico resting off a nightlong drunk in a playground swing, gesturing the children to go off and leave him alone...
...trouble in New Orleans: his Cincinnati notoriety had dogged his heels southward. "I am pretty much in the position," he wrote, "of a bookkeeper known to have once embezzled, or of a man who has been in prison, or of a prostitute who has been on the street." In turn he tried Martinique, Philadelphia and New York, soon tired of all. Looking for something different, he signed with a publisher to go to Japan and send back some sketches...