Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Language of Love. In Milwaukee. Mrs. Jeanne K. Devine explained why she had handed out $4,000 in worthless checks, using her ex-husband's name: she hoped that he would be lured back to Milwaukee where she could force him to support their child...
...Alberta oil lands. Western Leaseholds is one of Alberta's soundest companies, with 160 producing wells and drilling rights on some 2,400,000 acres of oil land. The deal was fabulously profitable for Lawyer Harvie. More than 20 years ago, a bankrupt client gave him the then-worthless rights to the best part of the land in payment of a legal fee. Harvie cannily held them until they yielded a fortune...
...land is actually sinking, from six inches in the business district to more than three feet in suburban Pasadena. Though enough rain falls on Texas every year to cover the entire state to a depth of 30 inches, man uses only a small part of this flood. Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation. Of the total precipitation, Texans are left with little-about 3% for pasture grass, timber, crops, etc.. another 3% that seeps to underground reservoirs...
...firms, none is more discreet than Manhattan's Van Cleef & Arpels. The firm's customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth...
...stock but dodge SEC by keeping their issues under $300,000, the cutoff point for SEC regulation of any kind. Further, SEC, the State Department and the Canadian government should join forces to prevent confidence men north of the border from selling "ten to 50 millions of dollars" in worthless securities every year in the U.S. The report also laid out the committee's future work; a subcommittee is now investigating the way proxy fights have been run, while the committee will probe the effects on the stock market of heavy security purchases by institutional investors, e.g., banks, pension...