Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes later Morris Weinberger, drug salesman, got home from a drive with his other son, was told the news by his distraught wife. He promptly called Nassau County police headquarters. Neighbors and a swarm of detectives quickly spread the news through the fashionable Long Island suburb. Inevitably, someone called the New York newspapers...
Manhattan's other major morning papers, the Herald, Tribune and Hearst's Daily Mirror, picked up the story. As clamoring rewrite men and reporters called Nassau County headquarters to check their tips, they were, asked by police to hold up the story until after the ransom deadline next day, in hope the kidnaper would collect the ransom and return the baby...
Zeckendorf's project has an impressive economic base. Nassau County, the fastest growing New York City suburb, increased its population 140% between 1940 and 1954. Today the shopping center estimates: 1) a potential market of 1,300,000 (1,600,000 by 1960) inside a ten-mile radius; 2) 37,000 customers for its stores on ordinary shopping days, 57,000 on pre-Christmas peak days; 3) $80 million in gross retail sales its first operating year...
...Dutch editors were discreetly doubtful of the wisdom of putting out any statement at all, but government authority answered that the need for it involved not the public but the principals themselves. It was, in a sense, a tacit admission that difficulties still exist in the House of Orange-Nassau...
Idyl at Soestdijk. To all outward appearances, no ruling house in Europe can boast the solid, sobersided respectability of the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. For an aggregate of 66 years, its last two Queens have reigned with the placidity of huisvrouwen. The marriage of the present Queen Juliana,who succeeded to the throne at the retirement of her mother Wilhelmina in 1948, to German Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (a former I.G. Farben representative) was long acclaimed as one of the happiest in Europe. Sentimental Dutch editors were known to refer to their conjugal life at the royal residence...