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...heard it from the lips of Phyllis C. herself, a client. Whether the letter was true or not, the confession had come too late. The Story of the Woman Who Paid was well on its way to becoming a part of American folklore, like the lady on the Merritt Parkway (TIME, March...
...State Police advise that the best route-to Princeton Route 9 from Boston to Route 20 east of Worcester. Follow Route 20 to Route 15 east to Hartford, and continue on south along the Merritt Parkway, which joins the Henry Hudson Parkway north of New York City. Turn off the Hudson parkway at the George Washington Bridge, following the signs to the New Jersey Turnpike. Leave the turnpike at the New Brunswick exit and proceed about five miles to Route 1. Follow Route 1 until the signs for Princeton appear on the right...
...mail-order business, second biggest merchandising enterprise in the country, was a big job for any man . But Wolfson is used to big jobs. In 22 years he has parlayed a $5,000 investment into a $200 million industrial empire. Since 1949, he has bought control of the big Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction company, the Washington, D.C. street-transportation system, the New York Shipbuilding Corp., the 200-year-old paintmaking Devoe & Raynolds Co.. and a hatful of smaller concerns...
...into a pot of gold for Wolfson. He and a group of friends bought control of Washington's Capital Transit for $20 a share, have since paid themselves about $30 a share in dividends, much of it from an accumulated surplus. By going after contracts aggressively, Wolfson boosted Merritt-Chapman's gross from $33 million in 1948 to $70 million in 1953. Dividends have gone up even faster, from an average of 51? a share in the four years before Wolfson took over to an average of $1.73 in the four years since. Two stock dividends...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...