Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard H. Timberlake III Arlington...
Stephen had no intention of founding a new business, but 26 years later, after steady but unspectacular sales, his grill has caught fire. It is one of the fastest-selling outdoor cookers in the country, and Stephen's factory in Arlington Heights, Ill., is humming trying to keep up with demand. Though the Weber Barbeque Kettle costs more than many competing models (the suggested retail price is about $80 for the 22½-m. version), sale's are increasing at 25% to 40% a year; in 1976 they reached more than $20 million. The grills are catching...
...clamor for copies of his initial grill; after he had made a few of them, demand seemed so strong that in 1958 he left the sheet-metal company to found Weber-Stephen Products Co. and make the grills full time. In 1964 he took over an old factory in Arlington Heights to increase output...
Hannifin was granted access to the North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he monitored NORAD'S worldwide and deep-space observation systems. Another major stop for him was "Pentagon-South," the Army Materiel Command in Arlington, Va., where Army engineers develop and test new hardware...
There is no way to group the galleries on Newbury Street into any kind of coherent review on one kind of art so the fact that they are all on one street will have to suffice as a justification. It's a great street though, right off the Arlington subway stop, with at least thirty galleries squeezed in between boutiques covering six city blocks...