Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time, when Porter had been solidly established in the theater for some five years, luscious Lucius Beebe, self-made expert on the art of splendiferous living, hailed a master of the art: "It is really the simple things of life which give pleasure to Mr. Porter-half-million-dollar strings of pearls, Isotta motor cars, cases of double bottles of Grand Chambertin '87, suites at Claridge's, brief trips aboard the Bremen, a little grouse shooting ... He is on all the first-night lists, Leon at L'Aperitif salutes him as 'Highness...
Blue-eyed Dorothy Schiff inherited $15 million from her banker father, Mortimer Schiff. But she was not content to be just a rich girl; she wanted to be a newspaper publisher. With second husband George Backer, a millionaire himself and then a member of the New York City Council, she bought the New York Post in 1939. When Publisher Backer became ill in 1942, "Dolly," who had been vice president and treasurer, took over as publisher herself...
...despite some banal street interviews and the bumbling repetitions of some announcers, TV could boast that it had finally caught a moment of history just as it happened. Ten million televiewers from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi felt that they had truly been there with Washington's cheering thousands...
...market for new securities also looked better than at any time in months. In two days last week, underwriters floated $30 million worth of new common and preferred stocks in five issues. The biggest: $20.4 million worth of Bethlehem Steel common, $8.1 million worth of Philadelphia's prosperous, long closely held Rohm & Haas 'chemical works.* Wall Streeters, who had long been telling one another that risk capital was all but dead, thought that they felt a stronger pulse...
...much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population is now 20,000), and their gross had jumped from 1947's $20 million to twice that. As big-scale production cut costs the Levitts decided they could give Levittown a slightly bigger house (25 by 32), with a lot of extra comforts, for $7,990. Originally they had planned to build only 2,500 of them this year. After last week's rush they...