Word: annexations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thanks to Wilcox, and thanks to the larger shelves in the Coop's new annex (previously, in the height of the buying rush, books had lain for days in Coop storage rooms), Coop officials estimate that the textbook shortage hasn't got above 15 per cent this term. Last year, there were times when 30 per cent of the books were missing...
...show business as the "Great Non-Rehearser," Gleason now works six days a week, has cut down on his golfing (though he still manages to break 80 frequently). Otherwise, nothing has changed. Lots of pool in "Gleason's Pool Hall," a 40-by-60-ft. air-conditioned annex to his house. More J & B Scotch than ever, though he shifts to champagne on taping day. The same omnipresent "executive secretary," Honey Merrill, who has been with Gleason for ten years. No nostalgia for New York City that he can't appease with daily phone calls to his friends...
Citrus fruit, the arrival of the railroad and Southern California's spreading reputation as a sun-drenched health haven led to a land boom in the 1880s. The landlocked city enhanced its metropolitan status by reaching out 20 miles to annex San Pedro as an outlet to the Pacific. By 1900, the population exceeded 100,000, and when Los Angeles quenched its thirst with an aqueduct to the far-off Owens River Valley in 1913, its destiny was sealed. Los Angeles and its environs claimed well over 2,000,000 inhabitants by 1930. Having emerged after World...
...same time, the Coop was admitting quietly that Dietz was partly right. It changed its plans to show the annex set back from the street, as Dietz had suggested. An off-street truck loading dock that Dietz had also wound up in the Coop plans...
...protesting had began to sour. Earlier this year, Dietz said that the Coop should be kicked out of its nearly completed annex because it didn't have a temporary off-street loading dock for trucks. Then the Coop countered with photos of trucks unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Then Dietz charged that the photos were staged and that the platform was normally blocked by construction machinery. Then the Coop displayed affidavits from truck drivers who said that they had used the dock. Then Dietz produced an affidavit from someone in his office who said that...