Word: staidest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With record sums of cash in their coffers, even the staidest corporations are discovering the attractions of real estate development, the traditional province of the speculative entrepreneur. Railroads have long held huge chunks of the U.S. landscape and companies everywhere own land for plants and offices, but the companies now moving into real estate are involved in land and construction ventures that go well beyond the scope of their primary business. "The major fortunes in America have been made in land," says Morton A. Sterling, president of Sunset International Petroleum Corp. "There's no reason why corporations...
...longtime indifference of staidest Dutchmen to one of Europe's worst red-light districts has recently been shaken by a series of brutal murders. On New Year's Eve, 1957, Chinese Annie was strangled, and her killer escaped; in 1958 a drunken Norwegian sailor threw Finnish Hennie out of a window. Early last month Amsterdamers heard unsavory details of life in De Walletjes during the trial of Joop Scheide, a pimp who was~sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for killing a harlot called Lean Jossie. Scheide explained that he had only meant to give the girl...
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