Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oversees a nationwide enterprise with offices in Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C. In his long career he has presided over more than $3 billion worth of construction. It began with the beaver board exuberance of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. It led on to some of the largest and handsomest corporate structures anywhere, ranging from Manhattan's Lever House to San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach building. It raised Owings to national prominence as head of the presidential commission to replan the capital's Pennsylvania Avenue. Above all, Owings is engaged, along with many...
S.O.M.'s impressive depth in talent has captured superb commissions. The firm now has $750 million worth of building under construction, including Dallas' Main Place office complex, the home office of the Georgia-Pacific Corp. in Portland, Ore., and the Art and Architecture building at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle Campus?and there is another $1.2 billion of projects on the drafting boards. To each job S.O.M. will bring its proven methodology. Explains Owings: "You first ask if the building is needed or if it is possible to save the old one. Then you ask where it should...
Successively, he became involved as an investigator of graft in Hyderabad (he nailed the grafters), in the promotion of a machine to extract gold from low-grade ore (it did not work well), the colonization of Kenya (he fell into an elephant trap), lobbying for a gold-silver currency standard (it was not adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew...
...strike continues for as long as a month, its impact is expected to grow severe, especially north of the border. The seaway is the vital artery for Canadian grain exports, for shipment of Nova Scotia coal to Ontario electric plants, for the flow of iron ore to U.S. mills from Labrador and Quebec. Employers and union officials predict that a prolonged tie-up would idle at least 5,000 seamen, plus another 10,000 dockworkers at Great Lakes ports...
...after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna and Ore-Ida, a processor of frozen foods that takes its name from the fact that its first processing plants were in Idaho...