Word: basement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail-order business grew so fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two rat-infested rooms on the riverfront. Within three years, Webster's sales amounted to $102,000. By 1928, they had doubled. By 1931, W.P. had another idea...
...Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year...
...Cambridge Art Association is holding its annual exhibition and Christmas sale at the Association's basement gallery at 37 Palmer Street. Open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Tuesday and Saturday mornings, the gallery features Cambridge made oils, prints, water colors, and stained glass medallions...
...borrowed motion picture cameras, a projector, and lights are the extent of the present operating machinery, according to Ward. He added that a new club room in the basement of Leverett House has replaced makeshift meetings in his Lowell House room. The club is redecorating its new headquarters with an original mural by David E. Vanderburgh '50. To complete the room, Ivy is planning a new film library...
Buried below ground level in the basement of Widener Library is the photostating service. This non-profit organization photostats University records, exams for small courses, and material for scholars at other universities...