Word: owners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...
...most favored man, could
continue his fat income-guaranteed wartime living.
...knew I had already spent more money on my trip than I had planned-but I also knew I had to have some of his paintings. I hesitated, then sacrificed some of the dresses I had bought in Paris to buy two paintings from the gallery's owner, a M. de Cardonne...
...watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil it was-except that it was to be named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market price, laying "gas pipes" that conducted nothing but a steady flow of hot air. So no one was surprised when one fine day "the old Trollope" gathered her bankrupt skirts around her "robust...
Bartenders & Barbers. It would take a lot of doing. In the Police Gazette's heyday under Publisher Richard Kyle Fox, who made a fortune in his 45 years as owner (1877-1922), the weekly magazine had a circulation of almost 500,000 and a readership in the millions. No well-appointed barbershop, saloon or Army post could afford to be without the Gazette...