Word: ruffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White-maned, Yankee-hating Edmund Ruffin watched the signal shot burst over Charleston harbor, seeming to trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells...
...Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg magnifies Sumter's importance for dramatic effect, tending to cast it as an actual cause of the Civil War instead of the incident that set off a conflict long inevitable. Nonetheless, in the policies of drift and duplicity that led to Edmund Ruffin's pulling the lanyard, and in the strains it placed on the minds and loyalties of the men involved, Sumter can serve as a microcosm for the Civil...
...name, Sixth Avenue. Its hole-in-the-wall souvenir shops, cut-rate stores, bars, and delicatessens sprawl in an incongruous line between the luxury of Fifth Avenue and the tinsel of Broadway. But last week Sixth Avenue made an appointment for a beauty treatment. Real Estate Men Peter B. Ruffin and John Galbreath, who built Manhattan's 45-story new Socony Mobil Building (TIME, Oct. 1), announced plans for a 60-story, $50 million to $60 million stainless-steel-sheathed skyscraper, with the most floor space of any postwar U.S. office building...
Biggest example of the new financing technique is the 45-story, 1,600,000-sq.-ft. Socony Mobil Building across from Grand Central Terminal. On the basis of plans drawn by Architects Wallace Kirkman Harrison and Max Abramovitz, Real-Estate Men Peter Ruffin and John Galbreath got Socony Mobil to sign a letter of intent for a 25-year lease on nearly half the proposed building. They took the plans and tentative leases to the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which put up $37.5 million in principal financing for the building. Next month the Socony Mobil Building, world's largest...
...Giles, had bought Rosenow Ranch, a scraggly, 10,114-acre tract in Kinney County, Texas for $162,500, sold it to the state a year later for $353,000. Giles admitted he had raised the state appraiser's valuation of the land $5 an acre. L. V. Ruffin, a Brady real-estate dealer, testified that he had traveled in Sheffield's Cadillac to California, Mexico, Chicago and New Orleans to get signatures of eligible veterans who had moved out of Texas...