Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. Jack Webb. 33. deadpan star (Sergeant Friday) and director of radio and TV's even-paced crime show. Dragnet; by Cinemactress Julie London. 26 (The Red House); after six years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...capitalist: therefore, the U.S. is an anti-social exploiter, Q.E.D. British Socialists have a special resentment against American capitalism: it works. A decaying American capitalism could be treated with the tolerance and condescension that is the hallmark of the Fabian spirit. But neither Fabius nor Sidney Webb would know what to do with a capitalist enemy that really achieves its ends. The success of American capitalism in raising American living standards can neither be believed nor forgiven. It can only be evaded by talking of "the American treasure house of resources" (as if mass-produced automobiles came out of mines...
...Bunnies took a quick lead on a goal by Charley Webb in the first few minutes and held it for the rest of the game. A Bob Backner goal at the start of the second half increased Leverett's lead, but Dudley pulled back on Dave Margolis' goal after the kickoff...
...negotiating the labyrinthine stock transfer, more than 100 attorneys from a dozen leading Manhattan law firms worked over a ton of legal documents. In the deal, Webb & Knapp and Graysler Corp., owned by Lazard Freres, investment bankers (with a 25% interest in the transaction), got all the stock in the Chrysler Building and its annex plus the stock controlling the Graybar Building. The money came from $40 million worth of mortgage bonds taken by Equitable Life Assurance Society, $4,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., $8,000,000 from Webb & Knapp...
...Webb & Knapp, the buildings, all fully rented, will bring in an estimated $2,000,000 a year before taxes. Moreover, says Zeckendorf, the skyscrapers will be more profitable under one control; costs can be cut, possibly by a private power and heating plant for all three, and tenants can shift around more easily in the different buildings, according to their needs. He also plans to improve the buildings, starting out by air-conditioning the Chrysler and Graybar...