Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
...agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess on Rubloff's commission...
When & if Greyhound can get steel and other construction materials (probably not very soon), it will tear the old buildings down. In their place will rise a long, low (four stories) $3,000,000 building which will be the world's largest and swankest bus station. Busses will enter the basement by ramps, unload passengers to escalators running to a first floor complete with waiting rooms, shops, restaurant, newsreel theater, parking garage...
...nearly put a stop to golf tournaments in England, has cut down greyhound races to one meet instead of three a week; pigs and potatoes flourish on Wimbledon's famed tennis courts. But, come hell or Hitler, Englishmen still refuse to give up cricket and the Derby...
...Greyhound Corp. (busses...