Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...time, Swaffield has been hauled off the field on a stretcher, swung at by an aroused coach and hooted by hundreds of thousands of football partisans when he stepped off unpopular penalties. Despite all this, Swaffield would not swap his Saturday-afternoon workouts for anything he can think of. "It's a lot of fun," he says. "I like the game. I like the boys. I like the atmosphere. I find it a relaxation from the office...
Young and Hirshhorn, Goldstein said, had come into the McNutt company by virtue of a deal with a Canadian company called Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines, Ltd. which Young and Hirshhorn control. Last summer they swapped the company's Saskatchewan land claims for 1,800,000 shares of American-Canadian. News of the swap, said Goldstein, had sent Pax Athabasca's stock soaring (recent price: $28 v. 5? in 1949). Counting the shares in American-Canadian Uranium held by Pax Athabasca, said Goldstein, insiders owned 83% of American-Canadian's stock. All told, they...
This week, Robert Frost will head west for Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, where poets, scholars and editors will gather to do him honor. They will swap ideas, discuss "The Poet and Reality," see a production of A Masque of Mercy, and pay their respects to their old friend...
Green Light? The deal-to be accomplished by a stock swap on the basis of book value-was by no means clinched. It depended on 1) approval by CAB of a pending Delta application for a route into New York from Atlanta (through Columbia, S.C.), which would connect up with the Northeast system, and 2) CAB approval of the merger itself. If approved, the merged lines would provide through service from Montreal and New England clear down to Miami, in direct competition with Rickenbacker's north-south business...
...change came as a swap: down to Randy's old job stepped a veteran newsman, Edmond D. Coblentz, 67, able publisher of the Call-Bulletin for the last ten years, who wanted to take things easier. For "Cobbie," who likes to sport a cane and carnation, it was the first letup in 50 years of hustling for Hearst as reporter and editor. Cobbie himself announced the change at a San Francisco banquet for 400, including Governor Earl Warren, Louis B. Mayer, Sam Goldwyn and assorted top Hearst brass, and was given a memento of his San Francisco days...