Word: marte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tied up in mortgages and real estate, proportionately more than any other life insurance company. The Pru is the world's biggest private holder of home mortgages (500,000), one of the biggest financers of huge skyscrapers (Manhattan's Empire State Building, Chicago's Merchandise Mart, Cincinnati's Terrace Hilton Hotel), a strong backer of the new shopping-center boom. It supplied $8,000,000 for Minneapolis' new Southdale Center and $100 million for Los Angeles' Lakewood shopping center and for more than 7,500 houses in a new development surrounding the center...
...room at Panama's Tocumen Airport, ex-Strongman Juan Perón affably thanked the Panamanian government for "eight good months" and sent his warmest regards to "the humble and suffering, and all the workers" of Panama. Upstairs, the former Argentine dictator's shapely secretary, Dancer Isabel Martínez, stopped sipping a Coke long enough to pose for photographers and describe her boss as "an extraordinary man in all respects." Then Perón, 60, and Isabel, 23, climbed aboard a plane for Venezuela...
...mass department store, offers French beaded purses for $99.50; Sears, Roebuck, the farmer's friend, catalogues a $3,210 diamond ring for the farmer's wife, a $718 electric golf cart for the farmer. Last week, at the Summer Gift Show in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, prices were up as much as 100% over five years ago, but the show had the most successful run in its history, with sales 50% ahead of last year. One puzzled firm reported selling 200 Egyptian camel saddles at $100 apiece last year, could not figure out what for. Said...
...seventh floor of Chicago's fortress-like Furniture Mart one day last week, a grinning salesman pushed a button in the back of a sleek modern sofa...
...another $45 million). But now he hopes to build an even bigger project on Manhattan's West Side. This time, the idea is to redevelop 40 acres between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, create a $300 million-$500 million city of the future, with a vast merchandise mart, a permanent World's Fair, a heliport, a glittering television city, a parking lot for 20,000 cars, and a 1,750-foot "Freedom Tower" for, as Zeckendorf put it, "defense observation and other activities." With a target date of 1960, Zeckendorf announced that New York Central Chairman Robert...