Word: grandes
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Biggest example of the new financing technique is the 45-story, 1,600,000-sq.-ft. Socony Mobil Building across from Grand Central Terminal. On the basis of plans drawn by Architects Wallace Kirkman Harrison and Max Abramovitz, Real-Estate Men Peter Ruffin and John Galbreath got Socony Mobil to sign a letter of intent for a 25-year lease on nearly half the proposed building. They took the plans and tentative leases to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which put up $37.5 million in principal financing for the building. Next month the Socony Mobil Building, world's largest...
Freeport agreed to develop the Grand isle Block 18 dome (estimated reserves: upwards of 30 million tons), which was discovered in 1954 by Humble Oil & Refining Co. while drilling for oil under 45 ft. of water* six miles off the Louisiana coast. The two companies will split evenly the after-tax profits from production, which is due to start in 1960. But Freeport must first spend about $30 million in mining equipment and port facilities. To pay off its investment in Grand Isle Block 18, Freeport must mine 500,000 to 600,000 tons there every year-almost one-tenth...
...million for Freeport). Both companies carefully guard their reserve estimates. But some industry experts already guess that Texas Gulf Sulphur has been passed in total reserves by Freeport, which has an estimated 50 million to 60 million tons of sulphur buried along the Gulf coast, not counting the Grand Isle bonanza, which may produce up to double its expected 30 million tons...
...when he won his first grand victory, the Battle of Blenheim (1704). By that age "Wellington had won his last and Napoleon was dead," notes Author Rowse. To the warfare of his time-a static business of formal sieges, sedate marches and textbook battles-Churchill brought a degree of speed, flexibility and dash that horrified friends and foes. After Blenheim, he fought nine more campaigns, won nine more major battles...