Word: marte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made out a voucher to the director of the government-run Agrarian Bank, who in turn filled out two checks for 500.000 quetzales each to Alfonso Martínez (boss of the agrarian-reform program) and Colonel Carlos Enrique Díaz (head of the armed forces). They gave the checks back to Sierra Franco, who cashed them for blue 20-quetzal bills and grey 100-quetzal bills. He took the million, stuffed in a big canvas bag, back to Arbenz' office and turned it over to the President, Mart...
...million central-heating plant. Marked for destruction are such grey granite landmarks as pigeon-splattered city hall and the federal courthouse, to be replaced by small parks. Of 513 buildings in the main project area north of the winding Chicago River, only ten, including the huge Merchandise Mart and the American Medical Association headquarters, are classified as in "good" condition...
...Cave." Bluff Ohioan Bab bitt seemed a mart out of his time. Causes were bursting all about him, and the only kind of conscience that seemed fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism...
...stocks, hoping that some day he would have something substantial to leave behind. He bought solely on intuition-shares in Southern Union Gas Co. (he happened to believe in natural gas), Pickering Lumber Corp. and Brink's. Inc. He bought some 12,000 shares of the American Furniture Mart Building Co. of Chicago, watched it climb from 37 to $12.50. By the time he died in 1951, he was the wonder of his brokers. "The old gentleman knew nothing about stocks," said one. "He bought what we call undervalued situations-a company which for some reason has fallen into...
...broomstick? Yes, says Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, if it is designed both for usefulness and good looks. For the past three years, the museum has staged a kind of super shower, receiving thousands of new items of home furnishings through Chicago's Merchandise Mart, and selected a few hundred for good-design awards (signified by an orange and black label). Last week the museum exhibited the best of this year's crop...