Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally we are told that this $20,000,000 loan is just hard-headed business--we loan them money to build up their mines and some war-damaged industries, and in return we get large supplies of Yugoslav-mined strategic materials. You can't pull the wool love the American businessman's eyes...
Hilton thought he had picked up a bargain. For a mere $3,000,000, Hilton Hotels Corp. and half a dozen outside associates will acquire 70% of the common stock in a building which cost $26 million to build and furnish in 1931. (He also acquired $5,700,000 in bonded debt...
...been itching to move his headquarters out of tree-shaded Cambridge, Mass. He wanted to take his staff down to New York, to the market place, where it would be close to the advertising agencies that spend some $12 million of Lever money every year. He also wanted to build a new $6,000,000 Lever House and gather the top management of Lever and its three U.S. subsidiaries under one roof...
...notified; the guidebooks were placed in their hands. At that very moment. Chuck Luckman was in Boston's staid old Algonquin where he had called a meeting of 25 leading Bostonians. including Harvard's James Bryant Conant. and Charles Francis Adams. Said he: Lever was going to build a 20-story building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street and a $3,000,000 research laboratory in Edgewater, N.J. Everything except manufacturing (25-30% of Lever's total production) would leave Boston by Dec. 1, although the new building would not be ready for two years...
Open Market. In Des Moines, enterprising Justice of the Peace Earl W. Rinehart, standing firmly on his rights, refused to build a partition between the bar where he dispenses 'justice, and the bar where he dispenses beer...