Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm would take the Merck name, but Sharp & Dohme would continue to operate as a separate unit. Sharpe & Dohme shareholders seemed to be getting the best of it. They would get 2¼ shares of Merck common, worth 49½ at week's end, for every share of Sharp & Dohme, listed...
...Circus (M-G-M), a war movie with a Korean background, is dedicated to the indomitable human spirit," but it seems to be composed mostly of indestructible Hollywood heroics. It has a few authentic scenes depicting the helicopter rescue of wounded men and the operation of a mobile hospital unit under enemy fire. But most of its casualties are romantic...
...shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless competition for diplomas." But until school reform got under way L'Europeo had some advice for Italian school kids: "Away with guns and back to the slingshot...
...federal alcohol tax unit arrested the chief of Charleston (S.C.) County's police and eight of his cops, charged them with convoying moonshine for friendly bootleggers, and engaging in the whole, sale sale of illicit whiskey themselves...
Syngman Rhee and his able finance minister, Paik To Chin, put their heads together and devised a plan. All the won in circulation would be called in and exchanged for a new unit, the hwan, at the rate of one hwan for 100 won. Not more than 50,000 won (about $10) could be handed in by any individual at the first exchange; the rest would be exchanged later on terms not yet specified. Last week government teams quietly went out by boat and train from Pusan to stock the banks with the new money. Then a nine-day exchange...