Word: casas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atop a hill in a Toronto residential area stands a stolid, stone anachronism, Casa Loma. A mixture of 17th Century Scotch baronial and 20th Century-Fox, the castle rears its turrets as a memento to one Canadian's short-lived dream of glory. Starting in 1911, financier Sir Henry Pellatt poured an estimated $3,000,000 into the old-world battlements, wine cellars, secret stairways and tunnels; into the new-world trimmings, tiled swimming pool, modern plumbing (solid gold & silver fixtures), bowling alley, shooting galleries. Before Casa Loma's 100 rooms were completely finished or furnished, Sir Henry...
Mexico City's 400-year-old Casa de Azulejos (House of Blue Tiles) has been a private palace, the Jockey Club, the Russian Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, a dormitory for homeless newsboys, and, since 1919, the home of Sanborn's, most famous American business in Mexico. Last week the store in the old palace became the 416th link in the Walgreen drug chain. In its first venture outside the U.S., Walgreen's paid $2,500,000 to Ohio-born Frank Sanborn, 76, for the drugstore he founded 43 years ago with...
Frank Sanborn had first startled the Mexican drug business by refusing to pay doctors a percentage on prescriptions he filled. His next innovation: an American soda fountain. By 1919, when Sanborn's moved to the Casa de Azulejos, it had become a favorite gathering place for Mexicans and American tourists alike...
...customers hoped that Sanborn's would not become just another Walgreen's store. Anyway, as a historic monument, nothing in the Casa can be changed without Government permission. Sanborn even had to get an okay to hang pictures. Said Walgreen's vice president and treasurer Robert G. Knight: "Sanborn's is unique and we'll keep it that...
Admitting to Casa Rosada (Government House) newshawks that the reasons for higher prices were "more intricate than appears at first sight," Perón flatly promised that "if within 60 days the Government does not obtain the collaboration which it requests . . . it will be obliged to raise salaries up to 40% and freeze existing prices...