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Another, bigger construction aristocrat is the engineering subsidiary of Stone & Webster, Inc., utility advisers, founded in two small rooms in Post Office Square, Boston 50 years ago by M. I. T. Men Charles A. Stone and Edwin S. Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another...
From his young manhood, no prophet could have predicted Bolívar's future. Heir to one of the biggest fortunes in Venezuela (his childhood income was around $20,000 a year), this slight, hot-tempered, handsome young Creole aristocrat was the pampered darling of his family, at 17 began his conquests in the salons and boudoirs of Europe (Queen Maria Luisa of Spain was rumored one of the many). Then suddenly he left on a walking tour with his old tutor, a votary of Rousseau and the Greeks. Three months later, in Italy, Bolívar made...
...pies. Next she started a freighting business, with its profits bought up the war-abandoned ranches of the Santa Cruz Valley, dirt cheap. One admirer, tall, lean Peter Muncie, she sent to Kentucky for a herd of cattle to stock her ranches. The other, Gambler Jefferson Carteret, a Southern aristocrat with drooping eyelids and ornate manners, went off prospecting, found a gold mine. By Appomattox Phoebe had the mine, the ranches, the cattle, her prosperous freighting business, an infant son. "Him 'n' Arizony is babies together," she said. "You 'n' me, Peter, has got to help...
...sheen. Henry and his devoted second wife (beauteous Elsie Marie Whelen of Philadelphia) moved again, this time to the idyllic seclusion of an 8th-Century fortress-monastery at La Napoule, on the shores of the Mediterranean. There they set about to create their Never-Never Land. Self-conscious Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse...
...TIME made no "charges," is at a loss to understand Governor Maybank's. TIME said: "Mayor of Charleston then (1935), and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...