Word: knapp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan's William Zeckendorf, 57, buys properties the way other people buy record albums. The trouble is that Zeckendorf's base of operations, the New York realty firm of Webb & Knapp, Inc., has sometimes been barely a step ahead of its creditors. It seemed a healthy and restraining influence on Zeckendorf's unorthodox dealings when 13 months ago he took on as his partners the London real estate firm of Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd.-in return for $43,750,000 in needed cash and loan guarantees that Second Covent pumped into Zeckendorf...
...ebullient Bill Zeckendorf announced Evacuation Day for the hapless British. He acknowledged that his three British representatives, as well as three Americans whom the British had named to the board, had resigned as directors (though the British hold on to their 15% of Webb & Knapp stock). The British had found Zeckendorf impossible to harness or control. Barely controlling his own glee at having shucked off his British advisers, Zeckendorf piously admitted: "They thought that they could reform the old man, and I wish they...
...Knapp and H.B. Goodrich, Origins of American Scientists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press...
...Urban Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of mighty Aluminum Co. of America, which wants to do a little diversifying in a way that will also promote the use of aluminum construction. Alcoa gave Zeckendorf Property Corp. (an equal partnership between the British consortium and Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.) $10 million in cash, a 90% interest in Alcoa Urban Development Corp., and a note for $25.6 million payable within eleven years...
...strong halfback trio supplies the major support for the team. Chuck Okigwe, from Nigeria, had trouble early in the season with a knee injury, but has returned to his position as left half. Fred Akuffo fills the right half slot and Bobby Knapp the left half...