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...trail to the chamber started on top of the pyramid which supports the Temple of Inscriptions. A flat stone slab was found to have a crack in it, and workmen prying away at the crack discovered a dark flight of steps leading down into the pyramid. Ruz knew at once that he had a chance at an archaeological jackpot; Mayan pyramids are not supposed to have stairways in them...
...seasons, Ruz and a gang of laborers slowly cleared away the hard mass of stone and clay that blocked the passageway. The stairs seemed to slant down endlessly. At the 46th step there was a landing from which two galleries, also blocked, led to the sides of the pyramid. They were apparently intended to supply ventilation...
...North American, were star performers. Bond & Share, run by Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, controlled five intermediary holding companies, and through them sat on the backs of 231 subsidiaries. Its $3½ billion empire supplied power in 34 states from Florida to Oregon, from Texas to Pennsylvania. North American, the pyramid erected by luxury-loving Harrison Williams (TIME, Jan. 21), at one time supplied 13% of all U.S. electric power. It had 59 other companies beneath it, some of them stacked five deep. And on its back, North American had such other Williams-controlled companies as Central States Electric Corp...
...graduates at the bottom of the economic pyramid: teachers and preachers [median income: $3,584]," I shall not be able to buy your $4 book, They Went to College [TIME, April 7] I wish, therefore, that your three-column analysis had been clearer on one point, but what you do say lends weight to an idea about which I have long been wondering. Do not the higher salaries among the Ivy League graduates come primarily from the fact that a high percentage of them go into their father's business, their father-in-law's business, or into...
...order does not affect the Bank of America, the world's largest bank and the original foundation of the Giannini pyramid. Transamerica once owned 99% of the bank's stock but has trimmed this to 5.6%.*J. Louis Robertson disqualified himself because he was deputy comptroller of the currency when his office, two years ago, permitted Transamerica to sell 22 banks to the Bank of America (TIME, July 10, 1950). Abbot L. Mills, who came to the board from the U.S. National Bank of Portland, Ore., disqualified himself because his former boss had testified for Transamerica...