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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER, a 40-story hotel topped only by 1955's Prudential building, will rise along Chicago River by 1959. First hotel to be built in room-short Chicago since 1929 will have 1,216 rooms. Backing it is Promoter Jerrold Wexler, 32, who raised $3,500,000 from Aetna Life, $2,500,000 from his father-in-law, Chicago Real Estater George S. Lurie, and brother Louis R. Lurie, San Francisco real-estate tycoon...
FIRST FORMOSA SHIPYARD for tankers over 30,000 tons will be built by U.S. and Chinese investors. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. has taken ten-year lease on Taiwan Shipbuilding Corp. yards at Keelung, will add $2,000,000 to Chinese investors' $10 million for expansion, says it already has two contracts for 32,000-tonners. Formosan shipworkers will be sent to U.S. for training...
...project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston & Albany Railroad. Huge pilings will be driven into the ground to form a foundation for the project's centerpiece: a $50 million skyscraper, 50 stories tall, 40% of which will be used by Prudential for its regional headquarters. Around its huge tower, the Pru will also build a complex of airy...
Died. Carl Byoir, 68, onetime patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti...
...then worked to block construction of the canal, then bought shares in it, and finally occupied Egypt to secure military control of the new route to India. De Lesseps spent as much time rushing about Europe to put out fires as he did in digging. But the canal was built, England placated, and in 1869 the waters of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were joined directly for the first time-more than 3,000 years after the earliest known attempt, using the Nile as a connecting link, was supposedly made by the legendary Pharaoh Sesostris...