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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With California's tourist-trapping Disneyland as a model, showmen have started similar amusement parks in a dozen cities from Denver to Caracas, Venezuela. The wonder is that no one has staked out the biggest tourist mecca of them all: New York. Last week that sure thing was covered as well. Texas Engineer C. (for nothing) V. (for nothing) Wood, who already has five parks abuilding around the U.S. (TIME, June 29), announced a $65 .million Freedomland that will present two centuries of American history along with the ice cream and Cracker jack. To be located in The Bronx...
Tower of Hope. World War II's crash programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of peacetime. In General Motors' Boss Alfred P. Sloan Jr. he found a kindred spirit. Sloan put up the first $4,000,000, laid the foundations for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research-a 14-story tower of hope beside Memorial Hospital. Rhoads was its director...
...rooms are adorned but not crowded with Duncan Phyfe furniture, 200 Chinese porcelains, a top-rank selection of French Renaissance enamels, and more than 100 canvases, from Hieronymus Bosch to John Singer Sargent, all of extraordinary quality. In fact, Hals's Laughing Child is only one of a dozen absolute masterpieces in the museum...
...waste that came up with the oil. Now, so many cities are switching to natural gas-and oil is in such surplus-that the market has burgeoned, put a premium on gas discoveries. Mosser now has more than 18 oil and gas rigs drilling, brought in more than a dozen wells. He has two other promising fields that may well yield another trillion cubic feet of gas. Says Mosser: "We'll take the oil, but it's the gas we're really after...
...million. But he believes that wealthy men have a social responsibility to risk their riches, invest in inventive young companies. Says he: "I like doing constructive things with my money, rather than just trying to make more." The "constructive thing" was to put $5,000,000 into some two dozen long-shot companies since World War II. In doing so, he also made much more. The value of his stocks in the companies is now $33 million, not counting millions that he sold or gave to charity...