Word: industrialistic
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...Case in point: the impending destruction of one of the finest Gothic Revival mansions in the U.S., designed in 1846, and maintained in near perfect condition as a period piece both inside and out until it was willed to the city of Bridgeport, Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy last August got court permission to demolish the house, build in its place a new twelve-story city hall and civic center...
...admirably supported by an unusually talented cast. Cecil Parker and Michael Gough hilariously lampoon the stolidity of a pair of English industrialists without being in the least unkind or unlikable. And shapely Joan Greenwood is absolutely perfect as the rebellious daughter of the industrialist who employs our hero. She manages to portray the peaches and cream English type wanting to make a nest, yet at the same time a delightfully seductive sophisticate. One of the best minor roles in the film is carried by Vera Hope as a stalwart and outspoken labor organizer whose femininity shows through now and then...
...week. "The workers protest," one sign proclaimed. "After Murdochville, Kruppville" warned another, in an obvious attempt to keep the United Steelworkers' strike at the Murdochville works of the Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. in the public eye. In one of the Ritz-Carlton's handsomely appointed suites, German Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 50 (TIME, Aug. 12), shrugged off the demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with trade unions." Then newsmen gathered for a press conference got the news most of Canada has been waiting for: Krupp and four other German steelmakers have joined...
...early nomination for Man of the Year: West Germany's Industrialist Alfried Krupp, who commands the respect of the West and symbolizes the phenomenal perseverance and ambition of Western Germany, champion of Free Europe...
...trembled for Chabas in the cold water of Lake Annecy was destitute and starving. Chabas stoutly denied it. "She is 41 now," he said at the time, "and, alas, she is no longer as slender as when she posed for me. She is happily married to a wealthy French industrialist and has three lovely children ... I think I succeeded in capturing her delicate charm. She was exactly like the picture...