Word: nob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zeckendorf likes better than fine property. As boss and only stockholder of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., he controls a gross $100 million in real estate. Through Webb & Knapp, 250-lb. Bill Zeckendorf has such varied holdings as 50,000 square feet on San Francisco's fashionable Nob Hill, a huge tract in Los Angeles, a jail in Boise, Idaho, Denver's Courthouse Square and sizable holdings in Manhattan. No deal is too big for Zeckendorf; it was he who assembled the land for the present site of the United Nations in Manhattan, and sold...
...Ideas. Bill Zeckendorf has plenty of grandiose schemes to keep the company busy. On his Los Angeles site, which he bought for $3,000,000, he envisions a huge shopping and residential center; his Boise jail will be replaced by a store building; for San Francisco's Nob Hill, he has plans for a $2,500,000 modernistic apartment house; for Manhattan's Herald Square, next door to Macy's and Gimbels, he plans a $5,000,000 shopping center with the biggest Woolworth store...
High atop San Francisco's Nob Hill, the mourners and the curious crowded into massive, neo-Gothic Grace Cathedral. The great copper casket was carried into the arched, flower-filled chancel and set between two crosses of white lilies. From the Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants...