Word: haussmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is hardly a city from Vienna to Vientiane that is not hard pressed to accommodate swelling populations in orderly fashion. American cities face a special disadvantage, however, for they sprang full-blown from the wilderness; there was no planned base for rational expansion, as there was in Baron Haussmann's Paris or Peter the Great's St. Petersburg. In 1790 the nation's first census showed that 95% of Americans lived on farms or in hamlets...
...Middle East and Africa, and has other interests in 50 countries. To serve its 2,260,000 travelers a year, it has its own bakeries, laundries and wine cellars, provides 5,000,000 meals and a million sandwiches a year. From his elegant offices on Paris' Boulevard Haussmann, Widhoff carefully picks the enterprises in which to invest, usually buys only a portion of each but insists on full management...
...Need Ponderation." Organized in 1893 to handle the installation of electric trolley cars in Le Havre, Thomson-Houston soon became primarily a holding company with a small staff quartered on Paris' Boulevard Haussmann. In 1952 its directors, looking ahead, decided that the future belonged to producing companies...