Word: woolworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess were cordial, diplomatic, blandly evasive. With a tactful eye to U. S. tourist trade, the Duchess hoped that a "great many Americans will come to the Bahamas." The Duke talked of a visit to the U. S., quipped: "The highest building when I was there last was the Woolworth. That's dating...
...riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie Casque, an heiress with Woolworth connections...
...Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, Woolworth heiress, who had already given $10,000 to the Red Cross, gave $100,000 more. Local 151 of the Window Trimmers and Helpers Union of New York City gave...
...sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished the composition in an hour and 50 minutes. In its final form, harmonized for voice (wordless) and piano, he had it recorded as New York Skyline Melody. Climax of the leisurely, wandering composition: its climb up, over and down the Woolworth Building...
...half his time will be spent searching for parking space. If he walks, half his money will be devoted to the ties at Leopold Morse or the pipes at Leavitt and Peirce. The commuter will pursue his bus; the shopper will nibble mints at Woolworth's and the theatergoer will dash for the subway stairs. The Square is the beginning and end of all life: it is the road to class and the cup for that last drop of midnight coffee...