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On July 5, 1952, Schine Hotels sold the Ritz-Carlton for $3.75 million to Harry L. Katz and Edward Margolin, owners of the nearby Ambassador Hotel. [6] Sheraton Hotels bought the property on January 16, 1958 for $4 million, briefly renaming it The Sheraton Ritz-Carlton. Sheraton spent a further $800,000 on renovations, but sold the hotel again ...
t. e. The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system ...
The New York hotel opened in 1911; it was the first Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the U.S. [ 1] Louis Diat ran the kitchens and is believed to have invented the modern vichyssoise there. [ 2] Vincent Sardi Jr. completed his training at the hotel before rejoining Sardi's, his family restaurant business. [ 3] In the opening year, the Ritz-Carlton Company ...
Manuel Moroun. Manuel "Matty" Moroun (June 5, 1927 – July 12, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman, most notable as the owner of the Ambassador Bridge international crossing connecting Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario. [ 2][ 3] The bridge, which Moroun purchased from the Bower family in 1979, is one of the few privately owned ...
David M. Satterfield. David Michael Satterfield (born December 18, 1954) is an American diplomat and ambassador, who has served extensively in the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf area, Lebanon, and Iraq. He later served as a senior advisor on Iraq for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was director general of the Multinational ...
Ruth A. Davis (born May 28, 1943) is an American diplomat. Davis served as the 24th director general of the United States Foreign Service.She is the first woman of color to be appointed as Director General of the Foreign Service and the first African-American Director of the Foreign Service Institute.
The Space Shuttle Orbiter mockup was constructed by North American Rockwell in 1972. It was shown to NASA and Congress to win approval for the Space Shuttle program. The mockup is approximately the same size and shape as an actual Orbiter. It was also used to design cable harnesses for production shuttle Orbiters and to test-fit flight hardware.
AMC Ambassador. The Ambassador is an automobile manufactured and marketed by American Motors Corporation (AMC) from 1957 through 1974 over eight generations, available in two- and four-door sedan, two-door hardtop, four-door station wagon as well as two-door convertible body styles. It was classified as a full-size car from 1957 through 1961 ...