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...most that Rockefeller's whole trust had ever earned, in its heyday, was $83 million. In 1951, Socony-Vacuum, representing merely two of the 34 units into which the Supreme Court split the trust, earned nearly twice as much-a thumping $160 million ($5 per common share) and a 25% gain over 1950. At the news, Socony's directors declared a March dividend of 50?, up 25% from the last quarter, and Socony's stock pushed up to 40. Just ten years ago it sold...
Founded in the heyday of British imperial expansion by a British innkeeper from Calthorpe in Norfolk, Shepheard's was a sprawling, 350-room structure built in 1891, a curious mixture of Moorish and Western in design, in the heart of Cairo's European district. Newsmen and businessmen, actors, archdukes, sultans, admirals, subalterns and field marshals thronged its corridors, its dining rooms, bar." Kitchener stopped in at Shepheard's after the Battle of Omdurman. Explorer Stanley dropped in after finding Dr. Livingstone. John Pierpont Morgan the Elder ate his last meal in Shepheard's. To readers...
Many of these waves have been absorbed. The Zionists took care of most of the Jews, and the Germans, whose economy is now going at a higher rate than in Hitler's heyday, have absorbed the 8,000,000 Volksdeutsche and the 1,000,000 East Prussians, as well as a few of the early D.P.s and most of the recent Iron Curtain refugees...
...16th Century heyday, the Imperial and Royal Institute of the Pietra Dura (Hard Stone) was one of the busiest places in Florence. The duties of its craftsmen members: turning out the intricate designs of inlaid marble and semiprecious stones with which the Medici loved to decorate their palaces and chapels. After the Medici, the art, known as stone intarsia, went out of fashion; but a handful of institute members kept its difficult technique alive, occupied themselves mainly with repairing intarsia objects in Florentine museums and copying the old-fashioned designs...
...last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew of bloodshed, bosoms and pseudo-science that had built the Weekly up in its heyday, but let it down in its old age. (The first Weekly editor, Morrill Goddard, regularly held up as a model to his writers the famed Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR.) The Weekly began to run more how-to-do-it features on fashions, homemaking...