Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Textbook. In Little Rock, police caught up with a youth who had broken into an automobile, made off with a magazine called Crime Does...
Sharks & Whales. Since 1946, Rock Bros, has poured $7,000,000 into Nelson's International Basic Economy Corp., which starts new Latin American businesses in partnership with local capital. Another $5,000,000 has gone into such varied enterprises...
...they chipped in and built the Avila Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. The deal paid off, but such casual choices as that and McDonnell aircraft were not satisfactory to the methodical Rockefellers. Three years ago the Rockefellers formed Rock Bros., to put their capital to work. They already had a treatise to guide them. David, the youngest of the family, who "works down at the bank" (Chase National), got his Ph.D. on "The Theory of Capital Resources and Economic Waste...
...Likely to Win. "Rock Bros." is a blend of the Rockefellers' own brand of business acumen and Baptist ethics. Born to be rich, but bred to be philanthropists, the sons & daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.-John D. III, 42; Nelson, 40; Laurance, 38; Winthrop, 36; David, 33; and Mrs. Irving Pardee, 45-worry over where their money will do the greatest good, and still bring a reasonable return...
...which was also the age of William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper. Seven years before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...