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In house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world'...
Six years ago, this barren acreage looked to the unknowing eye like plenty of sun-baked nothing. But ebullient Real Estate Promoter Thomas Darlington and Partner Kenyon T. Palmer, who bought the sand for as little as $100 an acre, saw nuggets in every boulder. Their original 800 acres, broken...
Died. Waite Phillips, 81, Oklahoma oil millionaire and philanthropist, brother of the two founders of Phillips Petroleum Co., who himself struck it rich wheeling and dealing in oil properties during World War I, formed his own Waite Phillips Co. that he sold in 1925 for an estimated $40 million, branched...
Rear Window. At stake was the overlordship of Melbourne's bustling, 16-acre Victoria Market, beneath whose iron-roofed sheds are crowded the stalls of 800 produce growers and 200 agents. Work in the market starts at 2 a.m. as trucks roll in with produce from Victoria, New South...
Among the things those pieces of paper have bought is a big 75-year-old house on an 80-acre tract in Manhasset, L.I. Known as Kiluna Farm, it is a house that won't quit, rambling up, down and on the bias; it looks like ten shingle farmhouses...