Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot read like the scenario of an old Sydney Greenstreet movie, but the main character was all too real. Rugged, soft-voiced Ted Lewin, 52, is an American ex-prizefighter with a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso...
...music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...
...economic progress with warm and prideful eye. Said Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies: "The whole face of the land is being changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than...
...Lincoln Electric Co., which has nailed down 50% of the market for heavy electrical welding machinery; last year it gave its 148 employees $117,000 under a profit-sharing plan (Lincoln's employment waiting list: 2,000 people), has just opened a new $2,700,000 plant in Sydney and is working on still more expansion plans...
...Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia...