Word: doubledealing
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A Walk down the Bowery. He headed for New York City, where he soon bought the money-losing World from Financier Jay Gould for $346,000. "Gentlemen," Pulitzer told his new staff, "heretofore you have all been living in the parlor and taking baths every day. Now you are all...
Died. Harry Elmer Humphreys Jr., 66, president (1949-57) and chairman (1951-65) of Uniroyal Inc., formerly U.S. Rubber Co., third largest U.S. rubber producer, who rose from secretary of Christiana Securities, the Du Pont family holding company, to head the Du Pont-controlled rubber firm, where he overcame a...
Pindling has also doubled the islands' casino tax to $1,000,000 a year, and as a result, Groves last month abruptly closed the gold-papered Monte Carlo gaming room at his luxurious Lucayan Beach Hotel. That leaves Grand Bahama with only the Moorish-style El Casino in operation...
Without sufficient new gold, U.S. dollars and British pounds have been relied on as the world's two most trustworthy currencies for trade. This, in turn, has led to undue pressure on dollars and pounds, which if allowed to continue, could stagnate foreign trade. So far, at least, international...
By the time she had finished bubbling and won her Oscar, Sandy's market value had more than doubled, to $125,000 a picture. A garden-variety Hollywood Venus would henceforth instruct her agent to go after only big-budget, reserved-seat extravaganzas and leading men of maximum candlepower...