Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting time (3:30 a.m. from Pasadena) was concealed from the public as if the mirror's last move were a military offensive. The specially strengthened trailer, weighing 60 tons with the mirror and its wooden case, moved at five to ten miles an hour. At first the roadsides were empty, but as the news traveled, crowds began to gather. At Irvine, near Santa Ana, a star-minded school principal lined up his pupils to watch the parade pass...
When the venture proved a success, he bought ten acres, then more, on the south side of Kansas City. With a partner, John Cyrus Taylor, now president of the J. C. Nichols Co. (Nichols is chairman), he worked at building sidewalks, sewers, etc. by day, sold lots in the evening...
...what if we can't get our profits out,'' says Spang, an enthusiastic foreign trader. "We'll get them eventually. We're not in business for five years or just ten years or even 50 years. We're in business from now on-indefinitely...
...Land. Such a performance was an old story to Jesse Clyde Nichols, long-range planner who has expanded a ten-acre plot into the Country Club's 5,000 acres with 10,000 homes and apartments, 17 schools, 15 churches, five golf courses and 50,000 well-heeled residents. Nichols, who has proved himself a top city planner as consultant on scores of real estate developments, holds strong views on city planning and architecture. He habitually forced them on customers and tenants...
...works as promised, I.A.M.S. will be bound to affect the present polling systems that radio puts so much faith in. But radio's biggest pollster seems to be breathing easily. Said Claude Ernest Hooper: "We fully expect that every measurement we are making currently will still be continuing ten years from today." What's more, he added, Hooper has a similar device of its own-but "we anticipate that [it] will supply supplemental information only, if it proves useful...