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...handled the job so well that he was made a vice president in 1947. In 1955 he was chosen over 84 other vice presidents as president of J. Walter Thompson. Since then Strouse has won a reputation as a builder of new business, has also won back such multimillion accounts as Standard Brands and RCA. Madison Avenue competitors describe Strouse as "a good organization man in the best sense of the word...
...original figure. ¶ The Senate spent half the fiscal 1961 federal budget by appropriating $40.5 billion for defense - $1 billion more than the original Administration request and the total in the House-passed bill. In its mood of cold war militancy, it approved (85-0) multimillion-dollar boosts for the Atlas, Minuteman and Polaris missiles, pushed the Samos, Midas and Discoverer satellites, pumped new life into the B70 bomber and Bomarc antiaircraft-missile program, bolstered the Army's airlift capability, and earmarked $293 million for a conventionally powered supercarrier. Added by floor amendment were $90 million...
...daughter of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson, childless and restless after two divorces, with little to occupy her but New York's nightclub circuit. Harry Guggenheim also was born rich; heir to a mining and minerals fortune, he headed two of his family's multimillion-dollar foundations, served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba. In 1939, Harry and Alicia were married and set up light housekeeping in a 30-room Norman chateau at Sands Point, Long Island. Within a year, Guggenheim found a novel way of giving Alicia's life more purpose...
...person of Wheeler-Dealer Walter J. Mornssey, a man to whom a convertible is not a car but a debenture. Morrissey wants to fold Trumpet and its sister magazine. Gentlewoman, and save the firm's other, money-making divisions, thereby boosting the company stock and setting up a multimillion-dollar capital gain for himself. In the Cottier situation. Gentlewoman was Woman's Home Companion, and the Morrissey role was played by smooth Financier J. Patrick Lannan, who with other industrialists held debentures convertible into 600,000 shares of common stock at $5 a share. The week Cottier...
Dowling's City Investing was a pioneer in making factories airy, pleasant places to work, has built multimillion-dollar industrial parks at Edison Township. N.J., Elmira, N.Y.. Atlanta. When the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to build its Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown...