Word: shelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buying until every room in his mansion was a small museum in itself. He lived surrounded by rich inlay, intricately carved paneling, rare porcelains, precious furniture. He could point to a table and say. "That belonged to Marie Antoinette." A magnificent desk with inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare gold boxes that...
...about the Venusian atmosphere: that it is highly ionized on top and therefore glows, making the planet appear hotter than it really is. Such an atmosphere would be brighter at the edges than in the center, and since the Venusian atmosphere does not show this, Venus can have no shell of ions to hide a temperate surface behind a glowing screen...
...industry figures that seat belts will be standard equipment on all cars. California Standard's Chevron gasoline stations in the East have had such success (50,000 new charge-account customers) by selling and installing belts at $5.95 each that this year Texaco, Socony Mobil, Shell and Richfield will start selling them...
Ralph Smith DeLoach, 51, who founded and heads Modern Homes, is a onetime lumberman with a fierce desire to dethrone Walter as king of the shell home business. A tough-talking and frugal Georgian, DeLoach started in 1956, now has 63 offices in 13 states. By carefully watching his costs (on one home he even weighed the nails), he has made his company perhaps the industry's most profitable, came out of 1962 with $22.5 million in sales and $1,700,000 in earnings...
Beans & Potatoes. Today's shell home buyer who has the cash can pay as little as $1,395 for a pure shell or as much as $7,800 for a semi-finished home (he pays some 70% more on the installment plan), can also buy a kit to finish the interior himself. Both Walter and DeLoach are moving toward more "livable" homes that are finished enough to qualify for FHA loans, but shells are still their main business. "We're selling to the bean and potato boy," says DeLoach, "and he's got a yard full...