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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ground was broken yesterday for a $500,000 motel to be built over the municipal parking lot in Brattle Sq. The three-story brick structure, with 57 rooms and two levels of parking space, is expected to be ready for occupancy in the spring...
Preliminary plans call for the new dining area to seat about 50. It will be built in place of the coat room that presently adjoins the main dining hall. The room will be connected to the main section by a sliding door, and will be constructed with partitions that could divide the room if necessary...
...Evans built his pyramid with cold cash. When he won control of a company, he nurtured it until it began to generate cash, then used the cash to buy yet another company. In the first quarter Porter's sales rose from last year's $32 million to $52 million, its profits from 51? per share to $1.30, after a merger with one of its subsidiaries. For Crane, Tom Evans hopes to turn a similar trick...
...Once a rich man's whim (there were only 28,300 pools, including commercial ones, five years ago), swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will be private pools, and the total in the nation will rise to more than...
...Florence, Ala. is specializing in precast, prestressed concrete-pool packages, complete with diving board and vacuum cleaner, delivered via truck to any backyard in the land for as little as $2,000. From International Swimming Pool Corp. (1958 sales: $12 million) this year has come a line of pools built above ground. Priced from $2,995 to $4,995, the pools consist of a thin, vinyl plastic sheet stretched over a plywood-and-steel frame that is supported by a Redwood exterior. The pools, named after Company President Esther Williams, are movable...