Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
...modernize, and repair 99 ships in U.S. shipyards. In its overall purpose, the new program is little different from the many ship-subsidy programs that the Government has launched since the basic Merchant Marine Act was passed in 1936. But in its operation under Maritime Board Chairman Louis S. Rothschild, a Kansas City retail mag nate who has been in charge since 1953, it will be a stronger program, notable for its cost-conscious, businessman's approach...
...addition, Maritime Chairman Rothschild has pulled a leaf from the auto dealers' book; he has started a tanker trade-in program that he hopes will add 20 old tankers to the reserve fleet and start ten new ones abuilding in U.S. shipyards. Under the new plan, any tanker more than ten years old can be traded in for mothballing; the Government will pay a trade-in allowance that can then be used to build a new ship to replace the old one in active service. Another new idea is patterned after FHA: the board will insure ship mortgages...
SHIPBUILDING, now operating at less than 50% of capacity, may soon be revived. U.S. Maritime Administrator Louis Rothschild is working out a Government program to step up replacement of obsolescent World War II cargo ships by offering the lines tax advantages, accelerated depreciation allowances, etc. He wants to give U.S. shipyards $70 million in orders, replace some 200 old ships over the next eight years...
...firms: Samuel Montagu & Co., Fixley and Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co., Mocatta & Goldsmid, N. M. Rothschild & Sons...