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> Lawrence College (1,180 students) in Appleton, Wis., will become Lawrence University next summer by absorbing tiny (152 women) Milwaukee-Downer College in Milwaukee. Downer aims to sell its 43-acre campus for $10 million to the bulging Milwaukee branch of the University of Wisconsin. Lawrence is already distinguished as...
Besides bossing the biggest independent oil company in California, ruddy Samuel Mosher, 71, the chairman of Signal Oil & Gas Co., pursues some profitable sidelines. On a 4,500-acre ranch near Santa Barbara and on an estate in Australia, he raises cymbidium orchids for florists. His Signal Oil owns a...
Marriage Revealed. Joan Irvine Swinden Penniman Burt, 30, leggy great-granddaughter of Real Estate Man James Irvine and principal (21%) heiress to the 88,000-acre $500 million Irvine Ranch south of Los Angeles, site of the world's largest private civic development project now under way, designed by...
U.S. railroads are now willing to lavish funds on this lucrative freight operation. Last week in Chicago, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway dedicated its new Proviso Piggyback Plaza, a 20-acre, twelve-track staging point for road trailers moving by train. This week the Baltimore & Ohio is completing an $11 million...
Since then, 17,200 men from 21 countries have labored and eight companies have invested $220 million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside...