Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Building owner George Rothman and representatives of McDonald's and the City Building Department, although invited by the city clerk to testify, did not appear at last night's meeting...
Both Pedro and Michael Goldberg, a legal advisor to the tenants group, questioned the legality of the demolition permit which the City Building Department issued to building owner Rothman last year. The permit must be issued to the legal property owner and Rothman's rights to the land were suspect, they said...
Early last week Murphy got a series of phone calls from a man who claimed to be a construction-company owner. The man said that his firm was about to go out of business and he had a curious problem: he had 300,000 gallons of surplus heating oil that he wanted to donate to deserving institutions. Would Murphy help him find recipients? Murphy began drawing up a list of schools and hospitals, though a colleague scoffed that the caller was probably just another of the crackpots who often bother newsmen. "I don't know whether...
Intense subterranean heat turns the water to steam, which then escapes to the surface through natural fissures. The plant's owner, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., harnesses the steam to drive generator-turbines and sends the electricity 85 miles to San Francisco...
Mellow has fine vignettes from the '20s and '30s. Francis Picabia, the rich, eccentric Cuban painter-owner of 100 autos in his lifetime-darts in and out of the narrative. "If you want clean ideas, you must change them as often as your shirts," he advised Gertrude. Her triumphant American tour in 1934 is a familiar story, but Mellow has new anecdotes, such as renting a You-Drive-Yourself car in Chicago because Gertrude was enchanted by the firm's name...