Word: multimillioned
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...masterworks (John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer) in a colonial-furnished museum reached by a covered bridge; of a brain hemorrhage; in Burlington. Mrs. Webb was the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, who were bemused by their daughter's interest in Americana, since they themselves had amassed a multimillion-dollar collection of European masters...
ZECKENDORF EMPIRE has been cut back by $90 million. Bill Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, big U.S. real estate firm, sold off that much property this year to get cash to rescue beleaguered Freedomland and to help finance multimillion-dollar developments in Los Angeles and Montreal...
...with her late husband, J. Watson Webb, a great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now 71, Mrs. Webb has always been a compulsive collector. "It's like being an alcoholic," she says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item: a $25 cigar-store Indian. As her daughter's stockpile of Early American dolls, quilts, pewter, decoys and trade signs grew...
...handled the job so well that he was made a vice president in 1947. In 1955 he was chosen over 84 other vice presidents as president of J. Walter Thompson. Since then Strouse has won a reputation as a builder of new business, has also won back such multimillion accounts as Standard Brands and RCA. Madison Avenue competitors describe Strouse as "a good organization man in the best sense of the word...
...original figure. ¶ The Senate spent half the fiscal 1961 federal budget by appropriating $40.5 billion for defense - $1 billion more than the original Administration request and the total in the House-passed bill. In its mood of cold war militancy, it approved (85-0) multimillion-dollar boosts for the Atlas, Minuteman and Polaris missiles, pushed the Samos, Midas and Discoverer satellites, pumped new life into the B70 bomber and Bomarc antiaircraft-missile program, bolstered the Army's airlift capability, and earmarked $293 million for a conventionally powered supercarrier. Added by floor amendment were $90 million...