Word: plunket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coke & Beer. On central New Providence Island, nine new hotels have sprung up in the past five years. The Howard Johnson-run Nassau Beach Lodge opened in February; rushing to completion is Lyford Cay, a combination club-real estate development masterminded by international beer baron and financier Edward Plunket Taylor of Toronto. In 1955 Taylor paid $2,000,000 for 4,000 acres of underbrush 17 miles west of Nassau, making him the second biggest landowner on New Providence (after Eunice Lady Oakes and her children, heirs to the 7,000 acres of the late Sir Harry Oakes...
Married. Granville James Leveson Gower, 39, fifth Earl Granville and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; and Boon Aileen Plunket, 26, a granddaughter and heiress of the late Beer Tycoon (Guinness Stout) Ernest Guinness; in the Queen's Chapel, London...