Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every city requires a sheltered meeting place," Chermayeff continued, "and the great concourse is better than anywhere else. The fountain outside the Plaza Hotel is often cold and wet, and there just isn't enough room under the clock at the Baltimore...
...admits to a fortune of "a few million" made by buying up properties cheap and improving them for resale. Sonnabend has won control (chairman of the board) of Botany Mills, is president of the Childs restaurant chain, now runs a string of seven hotels, including Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower. In 1950 Sonnabend and his associates bought Cleveland's $100 million Van Sweringen property for a total of $35 million, of which they had to put up only...
President Pusey will welcome the group to the University before the general sessions begin at the Shearton Plaza Hotel. Recent archaeological discoveries will be on display, as well as a number of outstanding films on Egypt and the ancient cliff dwellings in Arizona...
...Sonnabend, 57, was elected board chairman of Botany Mills of Passaic, N.J., which has lost $7,000,000 in the past two years. The president of the Childs Co. restaurant chain, and also of a string of hotels (e.g., Chicago's Edgewater Beach, Manhattan's Plaza and Ritz Tower), Sonnabend first got interested in textiles this year, when he supported Textron's attempt to take over American Woolen. Recent purchases of Botany stock gave him working control of the company along with Philadelphia's H. Daroff & Sons, maker of men's suits. To get Botany...
...PLAZA. It was built by "the Astors, Astorists, Astorites, the Vanderbilts, Plasterbilts and Whoeverbilts, who wanted a place to dress up and parade and see themselves in the great mirrors. So they sent for the finest master of the German Renaissance style, Henry Hardenbergh, and he did this-a skyscraper but not the monstrous thing the skyscraper was to become later. He still managed to keep it with a human sense. There were Ravenna mosaics on the floor, but they covered them up with rugs. A lot of it has been spoiled by inferior desecrators...