Word: trust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never seen, Handyman Dunbar suddenly became Sir Adrian Dunbar, heir to a 259-year-old Scottish baronetcy and a 3,400-acre Wigtownshire estate complete with manor house, tenantry, hunting lodge and a ?20,000 trust fund...
Death & Taxes. The Dunbar solicitors opened Sir Adrian's eyes to even more discouraging discoveries: two houses owned by the estate in England had been sold to meet death duties; most of the ?20,000 trust fund would have to go for the same cause. Only seven overgrown acres of the vast Scottish estate were still available for farming. Income and real-estate taxes would gobble up all but ?420 of the ?2,000 he would collect in rents from the rest of his holdings. With the mansion uninhabitable, the only shelter available to the new baronet...
...economy, and another 150 Russian officers who run the army and the police. The native population is for the most part sick with starvation, tuberculosis or plain terror. "It is almost impossible to avoid the security police who are everywhere," says Athanassios. "You can't even trust your own brother...
Despite this general rule, Athanassios, an engineer aboard a tiny cargo vessel called the Dynamo, did trust his young brother Christakis well enough to get them both free. One night last week, as the Dynamo's captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting to set sail in the harbor at Valona Athanassios turned up on board with a surprise-some rare white bread, cheese and good red wine. "From a cousin's wedding," he explained as he disappeared into the galley to prepare the feast...
...other hotels he has abuilding or contracted for around the world, he added a seventh in another deal in Havana. In Manhattan, he bought the 43-story New Yorker Hotel for $12.5 million. Actually, Hilton paid no cash on the transaction: instead, he gave the Manufacturers Trust Co.. owner of the New Yorker, 111,960 shares of preferred and common stock in the Hilton Hotels Corp. (worth $7,200,000), and agreed to take over the New Yorker's $5,300,000 mortgage held by the Equitable Life Assurance Society...