Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...month before the answer came: it was "not accidental." The Russians were willing to lift the blockade first, settle the currency problem at a meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. Thus began a series of guardedly friendly talks between Malik and Jessup in the Russian U.N. headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue. At week's end, they had informally discussed lifting the blockade, perhaps by May 15, had agreed to the U.S.S.R.'s single string to the offer: a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, probably in Paris at month's end. There remained...
...known that he had decided on the successor to retiring Army Secretary Kenneth Royall -though it is the President's prerogative to name his own official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably within 60 days, he would move into the Pentagon. So said Louis Johnson...
From the moment he walked into court to defend black-haired Judith Coplon (TIME. March 14) on charges of espionage, it was obvious that Attorney Archibald Palmer would do his best to turn drama into burlesque. In years of trying bankruptcy and miscellaneous claims cases in Manhattan, loudmouthed little Archie Palmer had learned every trick. Last week in Washington, he used them...
Finally, three fictitious but breathless-sounding FBI reports were planted on her desk. When she was arrested with Gubichev, in the shadows of Manhattan's Third Avenue elevated, her purse contained excerpts from the reports, plus 30 FBI "data slips" which pertained to security and suspected espionage agents...