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Since the boy from Brooklyn launched his first Korvette in 1948, his company has moved westward to the Mississippi, expanding to 42 stores and 63 supermarkets from Hartford to St. Louis. All this requires a lot of administration, and Ferkauf is much too restless to sit around and tend to the details of the nation's fastest-growing retail chain. Result: though Korvette's sales since 1962 have more than doubled to $720 million, its profits in this year's first fiscal half (ending in January) have dropped 14%, to $7.9 million, and its stock is down...
After Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. was killed by an Illinois lynch mob in 1844, Brigham Young led 10,000 of his followers on the great westward trek to the land of Zion that became Utah. Not all of the new religionists went with him. Denouncing Young as a usurper, a little band of Smith's disciples stayed in the Midwest to form the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which last week opened its biennial world conference at its dome-topped headquarters in Independence...
...state of Texas created Dallas County in 1846 with Dallas as the 'Seat of Justice.' In 1855 a toll bridge crossed the channel of the Trinity River at the west end of this plaza. Years later the river channel was moved one-half mile westward and confined between flood-control levees. Dallas was incorporated as a town...
More important than all the other changes is the fact that the center, the heart of London, has gravitated slowly westward to the haunts of the city's new elite, just as it did in centuries gone by. The ancient Tower, built by the Norman Plantagenets, gave way to the thriving guildhalls of the medieval City of London just up the Thames. The city yielded to neighboring Westminster and ultimately to the symbol of Victoria's empire, Buckingham Palace. After its latest shift, London's heart has come to rest somewhere in Mayfair, between the green fields...
...major reasons why M.I.T. doesn't want the Belt Route either intruding upon or adjacent to its campus: the Institute opposes the highway both as a physical barrier to related developments (like Technology Square, and the new NASA research center) and an impediment to M.I.T.'s expansion westward. It was for this reason that M.I.T. did not differentiate between the "rail-road" route and the Portland-Albany St. route, which lies to the West and would not take a significant number of the Institute's laboratories...