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...Spree. Within two years, Grace had decided the company must diversify-into chemicals and in a big way. Chemicals, he says, "were one of the few industries in which our entry wouldn't create an imbalance or an overcapacity." To the horror of most Grace elders, he launched the company on a $250 million spending spree, designed to buy new technical and executive skills as well as new businesses. Within the next decade, a series of eight acquisitions put Grace into sealing compounds, plastics, resin coatings, chemical catalysts, synthetic rubber, oil refining, and nuclear fuel processing. Sales to chemicals...
...VIEW OF THE SPREE (305 pp.)-Alson J. Smith-John...
...withered left arm made him feel insecure, she put him at ease with a few soulful chats. She earned his gratitude by finding him a submissive little wife, who later bore him eight children. Husband in tow, Mary moved into an elegant house in Berlin overlooking the River Spree. Wilhelm, who lived 16 miles away at the Sans Souci Palace in Potsdam, was soon spending most of his time on the Spree. "The serene confidence of the American woman," writes Smith, "must have exercised a powerful attraction on the crippled, inferiority-haunted heir to the German throne...
That pundit, alas, is lost to history, but his frighteningly accurate prediction remains. The Crimson indeed did not win another game all season. The only bright spot in those dark days of defeat was Borchard's scoring spree that made him the second Harvard man even to score 1000 points in his career...
...Friday night the varsity gained a fleeting lead five minutes after the opening buzzer. Then, a 13 point scoring spree by the Big Red in the next four minutes effectively ended Crimson chances. Cornell's beanpole center, Gerald Krumbein, paced the team with 16 points in the first half on long jumps...