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...most disappointing characteristic of the economy was the lack of a strong spring housing upturn. But such weak spots have failed to check the slow general expansion of the economy. Commented Dr. Marcus Nadler, consulting economist of the Hanover Bank of Manhattan...
...most able men alive today." As public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra, Blair kept the prince supplied with gifts from the PX. He further endeared himself to court circles by presenting attractive Princess Lalla Aisha, 29, with a cowgirl outfit donated by Dallas' Neiman-Marcus specialty store, and by flying four prairie dogs from Texas to Morocco for the King's private...
...company. By his skill and daring in finding oil markets, Deterding built Royal Dutch into an integrated operation, invaded country after country in a battle with Jersey Standard. To gain strength, he merged in 1907 with Britain's Shell Transport & Trading Co., Ltd., headed by a Londoner named Marcus Samuel, who had switched from importing to the promising field of oil. The two companies kept their separate identities, but adopted for their common symbol the polished sea shell that Samuel had used as his trademark when he was importing shells to grace the boudoirs of Victorian ladies. To assure...
...greatest find is a 1,000-ton Roman freighter owned by one Marcus Sestius, which sank in 140 ft. of water ten miles off Marseille about 205 B.C.-the oldest seagoing vessel ever found. It had a cargo of 10,000 amphorae filled with Greek and Roman wine, and a great store of black dinnerware of untold value to modern archaeologists...
Divorced. Harry Hines Woodring, 69, onetime (1928) Kansas commander of the American Legion who went on (1931-33) to be the state's Democratic Governor and later (1936-40) U.S. Secretary of War; by Helen Coolidge Woodring, 53, daughter of onetime Massachusetts Senator Marcus Coolidge; after 27 years of marriage, three children; in Topeka, Kans...