Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporate life. It sank more than $12,500,000 of its own cash, and another $44,000,000 borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Corp., into building the longest natural gas pipeline in the world; 1,265 miles from its rich fields near Corpus Christi, Texas to West Virginia, hub of the profitable northern market...
Chicago's $5,000,000 clothing store, The Hub, Henry C. Lytton & Co., last week took a 20-year lease on a South Side building where it will house its second city branch after the war. Other Chicago merchants did not think this such staggering news, but what did interest them was the man who signed the lease: Henry Charles Lytton, almost 99 years...
Last week, the man who has survived four wars, five financial panics and the Chicago fire was still pulling his weight. The yearly volume of his three Hub stores in Chicago's suburbs, plus the 18-story downtown Hub and five concessions, was $14,000,000; the profits, before taxes, $591,000; after taxes...
...only worked a 2½-hour day. And he had to watch himself (he gave up smoking at 81, drinking at 92). But he kept busy. On the day he signed the lease, he had also to go across the hall to see capable, 36-year-old Willard Cole, Hub executive Vice President and Lytton's probable successor. Then there were ads to be criticized, brief conferences with store executives, additions to the list of invitations to his 99th birthday party (July...
...Berlin's envelopment and destruction would have to be total. Fear-crazed men fought beside the fanatics as the teeth of the clamp bit deeper by the hour. Now the Russians were on the main spokes of the wheel of Chaussees and wide Strassen that led to the hub at Alexander Platz. From Weissensee and Pankow they bit in toward the big Sportspalast, where Adolf Hitler had recited much of the history that now had turned to bitter dust...