Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flood control is vital in California, where the nightmare is water-too much in the rainy north, too little in the arid south. Key to California's burgeoning economy is a multimillion-dollar system of dams and reservoirs that channels northern water into the fertile but dry Central Valley and the water-starved cities of the booming south. But no flood-control program is watertight, and California's is far from complete. Last week, in the wake of northern floods that cost $170 million and 74 lives, Californians were grateful for the dams they have, but bitterly regretted...
...bridge there, and her younger son, E. Roland Harriman, now a Manhattan financier (and still a Republican), built the bridge (now state-owned) as a private venture. By the time mother Harriman died, in 1932, she was able to leave her two sons and three daughters a multimillion-dollar heritage...
...already taken a look at Turkey's economic affairs and will soon be busy in the U.S. studying what can be done about them. Turkey seems to expect that in return for his retainer-$150,000- Tom Dewey will be able to turn a loud no into a multimillion-dollar yes. But Dewey carefully cleared his plans with the State Department before taking on the assignment, and he was told that the best service he could render his clients would be to show them why the U.S. answer must continue...
...solid footing in the highly competitive refrigeration industry in the short time we have been a part of it." Last spring Harvester seemed on even solider footing, as it overhauled its refrigeration department, doubled the number of its regional sales offices and trumpeted that it was launching a multimillion-dollar sales program. Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator plant for $19 million to fast-growing Whirlpool-Seeger Corp. (which is backed by RCA and Sears, Roebuck...
Meanwhile, on the Manzanares River, outside of Madrid, Director-Producer Robert Rossen was busy shooting his multimillion-dollar spectacle, Alexander the Great, using an army of more than 5,000 extras. And M-G-M was waiting its turn to rent the 1,000 horses Rossen is using before starting its own extravaganza...