Word: akron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since one out of every six U.S. jobs is directly or indirectly linked to the auto industry, its triumphs could pass along many benefits. Among the principal recipients will be Pittsburgh's steelmen, Akron's rubber firms and U.S. producers of copper, glass and leather. The investment tax credit will probably benefit the construction-steel and excavation-equipment industries to a lesser degree than the computer and machine-tool industries. Reason: with industrial production running at a sluggish 73% of capacity as a result of the recession, corporate planners will be much more likely to use the tax credit...
...fashioned hedonism remains an attraction. "I'll roam until my book of traveler's checks gets down to the last leaf," said Viet Nam Veteran Steve Verich of Akron, Ohio, traveling in West Germany. "When I was in the jungle, I vowed that if I ever got out alive, I'd spend a long time in Europe-drinking the local brand and making it with all the chicks until I got my fill. Then I'd return home to do something constructive. But now my traveler's checks are nearly gone, and I still haven...
...Thanks for your wonderful story on Rex Humbard and his Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron...
Technicolor Cross. Humbard's sumptuous Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron was in fact built for television, though it also serves a local congregation of 2,800 families. Opened in 1958 at a cost of $3,500,000, the vast circular structure is lavishly appointed: glass and marble walls, a huge wooden dome, tiers of theater-type seats around a stage that can be raised or lowered hydraulically. The auditorium atmosphere is hardly dispelled by the cathedral's single mark of religious character: a 100-ft.-long cross, hung horizontally, embellished with 4,700 light bulbs that...
...occupied duplicating tapes of the service and dispatching them to TV stations. The work, up to 18 hours a day for the indefatigable Humbard, pays off. It has been 19 years since Rex dropped out of his parents' traveling revival troupe to start his own church in Akron with $65 in his pocket. Again and again he has mortgaged the cathedral to buy more television time; eventually listeners become happy contributors. So far in 1971, mail contributions have totaled more than $1,600,000, but air time alone in the same period cost $1,937,000. Humbard...