Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jump, the Kaiser Industries Corp. circulated an ambitious (3 Ibs.) blueprint for building a major aluminum industry from Ghana's two abundant, untapped resources: red bauxite (aluminum ore) and cheap water power. So enthusiastic was Ghana that it started work immediately on the $600 million project. To Kaiser went the first contract-$3,000,000 for site-clearing and design work...
Trooping through The Netherlands last week went 78 American tourists whom most European businessmen were particularly anxious to impress. The tourists were all members of the New York Society of Security Analysts on a field trip to see whether European securities are a good buy. Conclusion after touring 37 companies in five countries: definitely but for sophisticated investors...
Wherever the analysts went, they left a wake of rising stocks. Almost all the companies visited rose as U.S. and European investors anticipated the analysts' reports. Britain's Edwards High Vacuum climbed 58% with the visit, and Germany's Siemens & Halske went up 5 points just ber fore the visitors went rubbernecking through a Siemens plant...
Emissaries from Rome. The battles known to history as "The Mithradatic Wars" went on for a quarter of a century. First Sulla, then Fimbria, and finally Lucullus smashed Mithradates' armies; the earlier massacre was repaid with the massacre of 300,000 of Mithradates' people. Mithradates flew for refuge to his son-in-law, King Tigranes of Armenia. A few years later, Tigranes marched forth at the head of 250,000 foot soldiers and 55,000 horsemen. To meet him went Rome's Lucullus with a mere handful of men-causing Tigranes to remark: "If these men have...
...Marauders, by Charlton Ogburn Jr. Merrill's Marauders went through some of the most vicious infantry fighting of World War II. Veteran Ogburn recalls the savage Burmese actions with sharp description and incisive reflection...