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...confusing way with words. At one point he apologetically confided to the Senators that "my lucidity doesn't quite equal my ambiguity." But one thing came through quite, clearly. Jacobs blamed Murphy for the basic decision that made Billie Sol's extensive land and cotton-allotment shenanigans possible. Also pointing a finger at Murphy was Witness John Bagwell, the Agriculture Department's general counsel...
...Carvalho last week, the regime has managed well. As if in reply to the mullah's chant, the drought that lasted straight through the four years of the United Arab Republic was broken the day after its dissolution, and the rains are now bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created the "Syrian twitch"-a quick, nervous glance over the shoulder. Although Syrian...
...Cotton has been breaking ground since 1924, when he borrowed $150 from his father and opened a one-man real estate office in Birmingham. Within a decade he was putting up $4.000,000 office buildings, and by 1950 he had transformed the city's skyline so radically that residents began to call him "Mr. Birmingham" or "King Cotton" and joked about what their city used to look like "B.C."−"Before Cotton." Birmingham alone was too small for Cotton. He stretched out to London and overseas. By 1960, when he merged his City Centre Properties with Financier Charles Clore...
With such strength, Cotton has little difficulty in borrowing from large British insurance companies. But his usual method of financing is to form "development partnerships" with outfits that have land or funds to invest (among them: Unilever, Imperial Tobacco, Oxford's Brasenose College). The partner supplies most of the capital, Cotton the knowledge. Last year he formed such a partnership with Isaac Wolfson's Great Universal Stores to rebuild many of the chain's 2,000 branches. He is now negotiating similar partnerships with Philips Electrical and Cunard...
While his men move earth and change skylines in city after city, Cotton lives the country squire's life on his Buckinghamshire estate on the Thames, gardening and admiring his art collection (Rembrandt, Renoir), in a manner appropriate for a man of property...