Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It was the sort of night that society columnists dream of. On the seafront terrace of a colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace...
· When Financier Floyd Odlum, longtime boss of Atlas Corp., retired last year at 68 to his Indio, Calif., ranch, the smart money bet that it would not last. Odlum, the argument ran, was constitutionally incapable of slowing down after 37 years of buying, revitalizing, and selling off such companies...
The tallest building in the world was sold last week for the highest price ever paid for a single structure. For $65 million, Chicago Financier Henry Crown sold the 102-story Empire State Building, a flop when it was built in the Depression but a moneymaker now, to a syndicate...
Relations between misanthropic Financier Howard Hughes, 55, and Trans World Airlines, the nation's third biggest air carrier, have long resembled those between a capricious master and a whip-shy dog. In the 17 years since he first gained control of TWA through his wholly owned (and vastly profitable...
-"We are able to do things better with our own hands." With these nationalistic words, Brazilian Financier Celso Rocha Miranda, 43, took control of Panair do Brasil away from Pan American World Airways. Though Pan Am retained its 30% holdings in Panair, Miranda bought up the other 70%, mostly from...