Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incorrigible delinquent. At 17 he was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for assault. By 1952 he had become a high-ranking enforcer for Bonnano. Because Galante spoke French, Spanish and several Italian dialects, he often acted as the family's emissary in overseas assignments to arrange multimillion-dollar drug deals. He was also involved in pornography, loan sharking and labor rackets...
...began with a promotion by Charles ("Chris") Christopher, now 33, a Dallas sharpie who honed his selling skills peddling encyclopedias and waterbeds in his teens, and then created Surety Industries, a computer leasing firm. The business worked this way: Surety bought computers from manufacturers. It financed the purchases with multimillion-dollar loans from banks, using the computers themselves as collateral. Then Surety leased the computers to corporations or government agencies. Typically, the leasing contract is for seven years, with the proviso that the customer can break it after three or four years. Before 1974 the banks were unwilling to make...
...waging a battle against the state of Texas. A fiery Bible-quoting, fundamentalist preacher, Roloff, 65, believes devoutly in the separation of church and state, so much so that he has repeatedly refused to allow inspection and licensing of his three child-correction homes in Texas, part of his multimillion-dollar evangelical empire. He has thundered defiance on his daily radio programs, broadcast over 180 stations to his supporters. "They want me to be licensed by a failing infidel system," he has claimed. "I'm tired of this bunch of rattlesnakes chewing...
...radio, television and newspapers told Albatross's story, the $1,600 plane was carted off to the Paris Air Show, parked among the latest multimillion-dollar marvels of aviation. An Albatross crew member called to book some hotel rooms in Paris for MacCready and company. All full up, he was told. He hung up, thought a minute, then called back: "It's for the man who just pedaled across the Channel." "Oui, m 'sieu!"came the reply. "How many rooms do you want...
DIED. John D. Murchison, 57, who teamed with younger brother Clint, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, to parlay their father's multimillion-dollar oil fortune into a vast empire (publishing, real estate, insurance, others); of a heart attack; in Dallas. So complex were the Murchisons' holdings that John joked, "If we're not careful, we may find out we're suing ourselves...