Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The main purpose of the pyramids was to give lasting protection to Pharaohs' mummies, but the slaves who built them must have seen the pyramids as foursquare symbols of tyranny at its solidest and heaviest. By contrast, the plans for Manhattan's U.N. Secretariat called for lightness, elegance...
Horses & Bourbon. Like many Virginians, Louis Johnson likes to think of himself as the descendant of a proud old plantation family. On his mother's side, he is. In the ante-bellum days the family estate near Leesville was a showplace of the state, with white mansion house, hundreds...
Early in the war, plump, bustling Ruddy Tongg formed a syndicate of small businessmen, called a hid (rhymes with Louie), and bought up properties of Caucasians fleeing to the mainland. At war's end, Ruddy Tongg had $1,000,000 worth of choice assets, including a bottling works, lucrative...
In return, the company agreed to build a $4,800,000 factory capable of producing 600,000 barrels of cement a year. To raise the capital, Sir William got the World Commerce Corp. to underwrite $1.400,000, had no trouble at all in selling $2,000,000 worth of stock...
There was nothing really wrong with twelve-year-old Queens College. It had a tree-lined 52-acre campus across the East River from Manhattan, an able faculty of 225, some 3,000 students and no real worries about raising money. Since it was one of the four independent branches...