Word: bilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their wish. The interwoven strands of their careers make up a pattern so complicated that at times it resembles a crazy quilt, but Author Josephson's patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long. I "will ruin you. Sincerely yours, Cornelius Vanderbilt. On his deathbed he refused...
Usual system in building an Honor Bilt home is to insist that the lot be free from liens, then to accept it as a 25% equity in the total cost, Sears, Roebuck furnishing the rest on a first-mortgage payable monthly for 15 years. Investigations of prospective customers are made and no home will be sold which is considered beyond the prospect's means. Family budgets are also furnished. The lumber is sent readycut and marked, labor furnished from the locality (until this year, labor was not included). The homes vary from three to nine rooms, cost from...
...Chairman Julius Rosenwald. In charge of the department at present is Harvey Louis Harris, 36, whose father was one of the Harris Bros, whose firm demolished the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1892) and St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904) buildings. Under the trade-mark of Honor Bilt homes, Sears, Roebuck's activity in this field is growing every year...
...inquisitive Sears, Roebuck statistical department has traced back postmark dates, discovered more Honor Bilt homes are ordered on sunny days than gloomy. Typical names of stock homes are: Berwyn, Columbine, Fairy Homewood, Jewell, Puritan, Solace, Sunlight...
Died. Harry St. Francis Black, 66, Manhattan realty tycoon, board chairman of U. S. Realty & Improvement Co., a director of the Missouri, Kansas, Texas R. R., Savoy Plaza Corp., Bowman-Bilt-more Hotels Corp., National City Bank (Manhattan); in bed at his home near Huntington, L. I., by his own hand (re-volver...