Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good measure, the ceremonies were as much the Army's as Abilene's, and they flashed with brass and braid. About 2,000 troops descended on the town of 7,300, a majority of them to furnish the stringent security that has become routine in recent years...
...major insurance combine, agreed to acquire Los Angeles' Larwin Co., the nation's largest privately owned home-building concern (1968 sales: $50 million). The price: $100 million in C.N.A. stock. Prudential Insurance recently bought a half interest in southern California's Westlake Village, a new town being built by Shipping Magnate Daniel Ludwig...
Chrysler Corp. is investing about $2,000,000 a week to become the landlord of projects ranging from a shopping center in Knoxville to a group of 360 town houses in Ann Arbor, Mich. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., the chemical manufacturer, recently bought the Yeonas Organization, a home-building firm in a suburb of Washington, D.C. International Paper picked up American Central Corp., a Lansing, Mich., developer of leisure-time property. The Penn-Central railroad is not only one of the nation's largest real estate owners but also depends on realty income to stay...
...prosperous, German-stock architects in Indianapolis, has worked as a crime reporter, a Saab dealer, and flack for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. "I started to write," he recalls, "because I hated that job so much." Schenectady keeps turning up in his books as a grim, upstate New York town called Ilium...
Early the next morning we went to town to wash up in the gas stations and eat breakfast at one of Milford's many greasy spoons. Today was to be a big day in the final New Hampshire shooting of the second segment of Prophetic Pictures, Eleanora. We were going to shoot some scenes on the highway during the day, at a horse stable in the afternoon, then Nora's ghost scene at night...