Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues growing so pregnant demanded a press conference, so the President held one. The Business Council, meeting up the street at the Mayflower Hotel and stuffed with such luminaries as Du Font's Irving Shapiro and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, required equal wattage from the White House. After a long, tough day, Carter took the podium at nearly 9 p.m. with a smile and a confession: "Your own influence at times might be even underestimated by you." He talked and answered questions for nearly an hour, a worthwhile effort, as he calculated it, for his anti-inflation...
Lying in the vault were about 50 Ibs. of paper money from the Commerzbank of Frankfurt to the Chase Manhattan Bank. It was a treasure far bigger than the $2.78 million taken in the Brink's holdup of 1950, bigger even than the $4.3 million Purolator heist in 1974 in Chicago. The Lufthansa bandits' haul: about $5 million in American dollars, nearly $1 million in jewelry, as well as an undetermined amount of foreign currency...
Police also believe that an employee may have tipped off the robbers to Lufthansa's treasure. Apparently it was there by a fluke. The money was scheduled to be transferred from Kennedy into Manhattan on the Friday before the heist, but when a Brink's truck arrived to take the money to Chase Manhattan, the Lufthansa foreman was too busy directing another shipment to open the vault. Some investigators think that there may have been a conspiracy to keep the money at the facility over the weekend...
...maintenance men and the army of other major and minor domos needed to conduct a convention, things do go bump in the night. And the morning, and the afternoon. In 1975 the American Bankers Association had planned to introduce its new board of directors on the revolving stage at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Each member was to be moved under the spotlight as the stage turned, but the power failed. When the board members were asked to walk around the stage and come under the spotlight one by one, the men, already standing in a circle, turned...
...world's largest Gothic cathedral is not in France. It sits on Morningside Heights in Manhattan and after 86 years is still unfinished. Construction stopped on the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at the outset of World War II and was never resumed; church leaders thought it improper to spend money on bricks and mortar in the face of poverty and social crisis in nearby Harlem. But last week Bishop Paul Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order...