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The first thing they should look for is a 6 ft. 4 in. skyscraper of a man who wears loud clothes and has a surprisingly unlined face for his 57 years. If all Britons in the Middle East were as able, deft and unruffled as Bahrein's Financial Consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Defeat into Victory. In World War II, allied bombs just about demolished the Ullstein block along the Kochstrasse, but printing presses in a skyscraper near the Tempelhof airport were little damaged. They continued to pour forth Goebbels' Das Reich and the screaming Der Angriff until the end. The Red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out of the Ashes | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

In Brazil, the "land of tomorrow," Sáo Paulo is the city of today. Last week in Sáo Paulo, Brazil's second city, a filling-station attendant watched a convoy of new trucks rolling down the highway to Rio, straight through a blinding tropical storm. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: City of Enterprise | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

The 102-story skyscraper made quite a crown for the empire-building son of a Lithuanian suspenders-maker. Crown, who was born in Chicago, started out 32 years ago in the sand and gravel business. His Material Service Corp. now grosses $45 million a year. Most Chicago businessmen had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Boss of the Empire | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

The varsity's biggest problem will be to stop the Eagles from scoring a lot. They have a very fast team which averages two inches of height more than the Crimson. This is probably the best B.C. team in recent years, Shepard said, since it now has a skyscraper center...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: Varsity Quintet Set to Stop B.C. Game Winning Streak | 12/20/1951 | See Source »

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