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...addition to the Ambassadorship, there is a multi-million-dollar project for Schine's swank Boca Raton Club near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Geddes, who regards the earth as well as buildings on it as fair game for rearranging, has started bulldozers reshaping the land around Boca Raton. Objective: a gently rolling, foursquare-mile plateau with just about the highest elevation (16 ft.) in the area. On it will be built a community of de luxe "cottages" that will sell at from, $20,000 to $50,000 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Comeback | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...skiing center. Colorado's Governor Lee Knous gave Edith Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost on Skis | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Died. Adolphus Busch III, 55, fourth in line of the great beer-barrel dynasty, president of Anheuser-Busch, multi-million-dollar brewers of Budweiser; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

BERLIN--United States Army criminal investigation agents said today they had uncovered a multi-million-dollar, worldwide black market ring operated by a single New York family with sons in Berlin, Paris and Shanghai...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...open this week came the strangest internal fight in U.S. airline history. The battlers: nimble, Washington-wise, $60,000,000 Pan American Airways v. cagev, 90-year-old, multi-million-dollar W. R. Grace & Co., shippers, bankers and international traders. Pan Am boasts many a foe's scalp; Grace has a reputation for never losing a battle. The prize is domination of a great airline they started together, Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra). The only important airline on the whole west coast of South America, Panagra flies over 8,000 route-miles from the Canal Zone to Santiago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Dogfight | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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