Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With only $1,000, borrowed on his car, young (27), hustling Leslie B. Nelson started building houses in Santa Barbara, Calif. after the war. With another loan, of $17,500, he built more than $4,500,000 worth of medium-priced houses, but he wasn't satisfied. He thought house prices too high. "No business," he complained, "has progressed slower than building...
...FRANK E. NELSON Warrington...
This week the Revised Standard Version was published in the U.S. (Nelson; $6) in a first printing of 1,000,000 copies. A conservative-looking maroon buckram volume on the outside, the new Bible has some surprises for the conservative reader inside. Such familiar Biblical words as "Jehovah" and "Calvary," for example, are nowhere to be found; the editors held them to be medieval usages, without particular justification, and replaced them with "Lord," and "the place which is called The Skull." Such familiar circumlocutions as "And it came to pass . . ." have also disappeared...
...Thomas Nelson & Sons, publishers of the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible, called on the advertising firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn fof a market survey before deciding on the format. Among the facts & figures turned up in the B.B.D. & O. survey of 2,474 housewives...
...World War II Harrison went to Washington, where he served for four years as deputy to Nelson Rockefeller in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Harrison the Government official proved an able administrator with a knack for homely diplomacy. Then came...