Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chief developer of the retirement cities is a 6-ft. 4-in., 63-year-old maelstrom of restless energy named Delbert Eugene Webb (see box). Construction is Del Webb's business-construction of anything and everything from a silo to a skyscraper-and in 1955, casting about for ways and means to expand his burgeoning Del E. Webb Corp., he bethought himself of the retirement market...
...grandfather, Jimmy Webb, used to grouch about being old with nothing to do," he says. "My old man used to say it was only the railroad companies that did anything for the guys it retired. Well, it's pretty grim, being old with nothing to do." Webb assigned one of his lieutenants to see what could be done...
...Yankee Co-Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb mustered votes to block Veeck's attempts to move his foundering St. Louis franchise to Baltimore-a town the Browns eventually wound up in after Veeck had been forced to sell out. "Topping was nothing if not frank," relates Veeck. "He said. 'We're going to keep you in St. Louis and bankrupt you. Then we'll decide where the franchise is going to go.'" As for Webb: "In Del's behalf, let me say that he does have a saintlike forbearance and a forgiving heart...
...rules to permit guarantee of loans that included the fine-arts provision. Last week ground was broken for the first major project to be financed by FHA under the new provision -a $40 million redevelopment of Philadelphia's shabby Society Hill section. At the 1% rate, Contractors Webb & Knapp and Chief Architect I.M. Pei will have a handsome $400,000 to spend on fine arts or sculpture to scatter among the planned five apartment towers, 225 town houses and shopping centers that replace the section's warehouses and dilapidated rooming houses...
...orbit around the earth. The second will bring up the fuel, rocket engines and other gear needed for the remainder of the earth-moon trip. The two payloads will rendezvous on orbit and prepare for departure for the moon. If preliminary tests make this system look too difficult. Webb proposes to fall back on direct ascent, using a giant Nova booster with 12 million Ibs. of thrust to toss a manned spaceship to the moon without the complication of orbital rendezvous. In either case, the spaceship will land on the moon after braking its descent with retrorockets. then take...