Word: corps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest and rum profits to safer fields. In 1928 he formed a lasting partnership with Dandy Phil Kastel, a dapper little enterpriser who had whetted 'his wits as manager of a Montreal restaurant and operator of a Manhattan bucket shop. Costello and Kastel formed the Tru-Mint Novelty Corp. and gave the enthusiastic New York public a chance to play slot machines. He told Kastel: "If a guy named Hershey could make all that dough on a 5? candy bar, maybe there's an angle here...
General Motors Corp., with a profit of $502.4 million in the first nine months of 1949, last week voted to pass out a year-end cash dividend of $187,000,000, biggest in U.S. history...
...establish a state theater circuit and a national motion picture company to finance independent producers and distribute their films. But his idea got scant support. The government has not done very well with its venture into the movie business so far. It had set up the National Film Finance Corp., with capital of $20,000,000 (before devaluation), to finance independents for five years. In 13 months of operation, the corporation has about run through its money, is ready to ask Parliament for more...
...Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
...until after six months of digging and other exploratory work will Vanadium Corp. surely know whether the claim is rich enough to mine commercially. And Pratt Segmiller's strike probably is not rich enough to qualify for the $10,000 bonus which the Atomic Energy Commission has offered for the first 20 tons of 20% uranium ore. (Despite thousands of claims, none has yet qualified...