Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Appendicitis is no longer the killer it was a dozen years ago. Since sulfa drugs began to be used to control the complication of peritonitis, the annual toll of U.S. lives lost to appendicitis has been cut from about 17,000 to 5,000. But, says Dr. Frederick Fitzherbert Boyce of New Orleans, the success of the wonder drugs has given both doctors and laymen a false sense of security...
...show windows are strapless pink tulles by Dior, tobacco-colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control of Manhattan's 65-year-old A. De Pinna Co., which is as much a tradition to many New Yorkers as Brooks Brothers. Garfinckel's bought Brooks Brothers four years...
...Muska, and how did he get the stock? The mystery started to clear up when Thomas Bata Jr. (rhymes with got ya), 34-year-old son of the shoe king, and Jan Bata, a half-brother of Thomas Sr., launched a court fight in New York for control of the empire. Each claimed the 2,000 shares, and demanded, as a starter, an 826-share block which Muska had deposited in a Manhattan bank...
Last week in Manhattan, after deliberating over the case for nine months, Justice Benjamin Schreiber of New York County's supreme court awarded the stock-and thus 40% control of the Bata empire-to Thomas Jr. and his mother. In doing so, he also unfolded a fantastic tale of international high finance and skulduggery...
...existence of the shares. By that time, Jan had been blacklisted by the U.S. and Britain for playing footie with the Nazis and had fled to Brazil, where he started a big new factory at "Batatuba." Young Thomas pitched in with the Allies, and succeeded in retaining operating control of most of the empire that was outside Nazi hands...