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...United Dye board, which controlled 90,000 of the 152,000 shares outstanding, then approved an ingenious Guterma plot to print thousands of additional shares and dump them on the public-at a profit. First it proposed a merger with little-known and profitless Handridge Oil Corp., which was controlled by Chairman Guterma and Las Vegas Gamblers Samuel Garfield and Irving Pasternak. Terms: 575,000 new shares of United Dye, worth $18 million, for 575,000 shares of Handridge, whose assets had been bought from Texas Wheeler-Dealers John and Clint Murchison Jr. for a mere $519,000. Remarkably, this...
...Takes French leave of his work gang, hides in a dump truck loaded with gravel, goes for a nice long ride, figures he's just about got it made, gets dumped in the midst of another work gang...
Three days later, the aroused Bruins went on to dump doubly unfortunate Dartmouth, while Penn--which was favored to top the league--was losing to Princeton. The Tigers followed their victory over the Quakers with a loss to Cornell later in the week...
...expected to worry much about traffic jams. Yet Russia has a growing problem, for almost all the cars and trucks are concentrated in the larger cities or on the few major roads between them. Especially congested at peak hours are some of the main streets of Moscow, where dump trucks and haulers vie at a snail's pace with taxis to get from one distant suburb to another. Last week a brand-new 68-mile superhighway was opened in the hope of speeding things up. The road, which forms a ring around the outskirts of Moscow, was begun...
...turned the island into a bordello, a dump and a gambling casino for over half a century; but it was Dr. bearded maniac who imposed an anti-American character on that pure little revolution...