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Word: colliers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years in the Navy before going to work in paper production in 1946. He was a sales vice president of Union Bag and a director of 13 companies (including Standard Packaging) when Wall Street Financier Edward Elliott in 1955 asked him to write a report on ailing Crowell-Collier, in which Elliott held a sizeable interest. After recommending that the magazines be killed, Chandler became temporary chairman. When Elliott turned to Standard (he owns about 5% of the stock), he put Chandler in command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Growing Package | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Married. Ann Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...week just before curfew. Men and women, waiting until British military patrols rounded the corner, furtively scooped up the leaflets, eagerly read the truce offer of Colonel Grivas, leader of the Greek Cypriot EOKA. Next day the British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Flight to the East | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...Paul C.Smith, 49, onetime president of the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., was named vice president and treasurer of American Export Lines. Smith, who worked in banking before he turned to journalism, resigned from Crowell-Collier after the directors folded its magazines in December 1956 (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Twelve months ago, a modern, 10,000-ton collier bound for Europe could be counted on to earn $3,570 profit each day at sea. Last week the same coal-laden vessel on the same run was losing up to $280 a day. After steaming along the crest of postwar prosperity, shipping is down in the trough of a deepening recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Down the Trough | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

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