Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aboard an airliner droning north from Mexico City to Houston one night last week, a square-jawed man wearing rimless glasses handed his seatmate two typed sheets of paper listing some 60 names. "I think I ought to know these folks," he explained. "Would you check me while I run over the list?" Henry Finch Holland, just nominated chief of the State Department's Latin American Affairs section, thereupon rattled off the names of Latin America's ambassadors to the U.S. and U.S. envoys to Latin America...
...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...
SOUTHERN Pacific has joined the New York, New Haven & Hartford in shipping truck trailers on railroad flatcars. The line is converting flatcars to handle trailers, is putting twelve piggyback cars with 240,000 Ibs. of merchandise on its Dallas-Houston, Fort Worth-Houston and Texas-Louisiana runs. ANHEUSERBusch, which opens - its new $15 million Los Angeles brewery (TIME, Oct. 26) this week, is also looking for a bigger share of the Gulf Coast market. It is buying a 150-acre tract at New Orleans, will build a $20 million brewery with a 1,000,000 bbl.-a-year capacity...
...slightly?5%. 5. Down sharply. 65. The area where the 1953 volume of building was larger than the combined 1952 total of Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver, Baltimore and Boston is: 1. Miami. 4. Pacific Northwest. 2. Los Angeles...
Without being conspicuous about it, Gresham and Bill Marmion of Houston stuck pretty close together and helped each other out as brothers are supposed...