Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Shipbuilding Corp., smallest of the Big 3(5 ways), has had the most turbulent career. Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick and their old steelmaster friends built it in 1899 on the banks of the deep. sheltered Delaware River ("America's Clyde"), on tidewater 90 miles from the sea. Mellon sold it in 1916 for $11,500,000 to American International Corp., and its troubles began. From 1925 on it was bought & sold first by brilliant, eccentric Laurence Russell Wilder, a promoter, who dropped its name and combined it with his electric equipment manufacturing firm of American Brown Boveri...
...museum, representing a ten million dollar donation by Andrew Mellon, is now nearing completion in Washington. In it will be found many of the greatest art treasures known to man. Not only will the erection of this edifice establish the city of Washington as one of the outstanding art centers of the world, but the classic dignity of the building itself will provide a fitting climax to the efforts exerted by the federal government during the past ten years to rebuild and beautify the entire city. The philanthropic spirit behind this splendid project can inspire nothing but praise; the benefits...
...case was filed, has aged with the processes of jurisprudence; Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland have disappeared; World War II began; two of the Government attorneys took wives; another became a father; two of the original 63 Alcoa defendants died (Vice President Winthrop Neilson and Stockholder Andrew William Mellon...
...staging its Sunday night Screen Guild Theatre over 64 CBS stations, the late Andrew Mellon's Gulf Oil Corp. pays the living William Green's Screen Actors Guild a flat $10,000 a week. It pays other costs, too-some $5,000 for production costs, $8,350 for air time. But the S. A. G.'s weekly $10,000, for which it volunteers the talents of 90% of Hollywood's great, goes straight into a Motion Picture Relief Fund, earmarked for the construction of a cinema old folks' home...