Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Co., Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., National Supply Co., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Peoples Natural Gas Co. Eventually ten buildings will sprawl over Gateway in a parklike setting of shaded walks, lawns, fountains...
...world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs for a $15 million, 800-room, new Hilton Hotel. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "We have heard about the renaissance of Pittsburgh. We like to go into a live city. Many communities just talk about urban redevelopment. Pittsburgh has accomplished what it talked about...
...avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, opposite Radio City Music Hall. When the 550-ft., air-conditioned building is finished in two years, TIME Inc. will take over 20 lower floors; the remaining 27 floors will be rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson, Inc., Esso Standard Oil Co. The plans of Manhattan Architects Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz (whose firm helped design Rockefeller Center, the United Nations building and many of the new Pittsburgh skyscrapers) call for a massive rectangular tower rising from two setbacks...
...Frederick King Weyerhaeuser, 61, was elected president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., largest in the country (2,600,000 acres of timberland, 1955 sales of more than $300 million), succeeding his conservation-minded younger brother J. P. Weyerhaeuser Jr., who died early this month of leukemia (TIME, Dec. 17). Timber King Weyerhaeuser was born in Rock Island, 111., graduated from Yale in 1917, piloted U.S. bombers on the Italian front during World War I. He joined Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. as an Iowa field representative in 1920, has been its president since 1929 and chairman of the present company since...
...been manipulating the bank funds, holding up payments on incoming checks to tide over a couple of wobbly depositors. Rose resigned, saying he had done it all for Ellenville. One of the doubtful ac counts was a nearby hotel named Zeiger's, the other, the Anjopa Paper Co., in neighboring Napanoch, headed by Joseph Di Candia. Rose had poured thousands of dollars into the old broken-down paper mill, handled all its finances personally, rebuilt it into an apparently profitable concern. Once when Di Candia was picked up in Ellenville on a charge of passing bad checks in York...