Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANHATTAN'S Kendrick R. Wilson Jr., 51, last week was something like a Tiffany manager moving into a ten-cent store. A financier who was trained at U.S. Trust Co. and Lehman Bros, before he rose to the chairmanship of widely diversified Avco Corp., he agreed to a deal...
All told, foreign sailors have traveled across the oceans to compete 18 times since 1851, when the schooner America started it all by trouncing a fleet of the fastest boats Britain could muster. Every challenger has returned home emptyhanded. In 1958 Britain's Sceptre went down to a humiliating...
The new complex, christened the Salonika Industrial Development Plan, was conceived by Boston Financier Thomas A. Pappas, 64, and includes projects by three U.S. companies. Esso Pappas, a partnership between Pappas and Jersey Standard, has started work on Greece's second oil refinery. "Within 19 months," promised Jersey Executive...
Crown Concessions. Freeport is the stubborn dream of U.S. Financier and Developer Wallace Groves. In the late 1940s, Groves bought a small lumber company on Grand Bahama, then little more than a desert island. In 1955, in exchange for tax concessions and a 99-year lease on 50,000 acres...
Died. Jack Cotton, 61, British property tycoon, a Birmingham urban developer who changed his native skyline so drastically that by 1950 residents joked about Birmingham "B.C." (before Cotton), in 1960 merged with London Financier Charles Clore to form the world-girdling, $1 billion City Centre Properties Ltd. (whose assets include...