Word: decoration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, the lowly cafeteria is a symbol of soup-line shabbiness. So what happens when it is spruced up with classy decor, white-jacketed waiters and tasty food? In the case of Mobile-based Morrison Incorporated, the resulting high costs hold profits to a thinly sliced 40? a meal. Naturally, the company has to compensate for that with volume. One of the nation's fastest-growing cafeteria chains, with 57 branches in seven Southeastern states (and six more due to open this year), Morrison's serves up 2,000,000 meals a month, has tripled annual sales over...
More Louis than Loew. The theater, formerly part of the Orpheum chain, had fallen on evil days. Its gaudy decor, a melange of rococo cupids, art nouveau statuary and Buddhist-Byzantine shrines, was shrouded in brownish dust. Decorator Clark Graves painted over most of the Byzantine and the Loew camp, highlighting those motifs which Louis XIV might have allowed in Versailles...
Leading supplier of weathered barn siding in the Midwest is former County Judge Gerald Jolin, 53, of Appleton, Wis. For years, as a sideline, he hunted old barns for architect friends. The demand kept growing, and in 1965 he set up Decor Materials Inc. and went into the barn business full time...
From a 22nd-floor penthouse overlooking the San Francisco waterfront, Davies manages these interests amid such antique decor as a rifle marked with Indian scrolls and a collection of Charles Russell oils, watercolors and bronzes depicting scenes from the early American West. He also prides himself on his collection of Indian relics, which he keeps on his 10,000-acre Lake County cattle ranch, 90 miles north of San Francisco...
...doctors, engineers, technicians and a cook will live in the lab's sealed quarters-including bedrooms, a kitchen stocked with frozen food, a small gym, and medical quarters with even a small operating room. But the astronauts will have no doubt that they are home: for crew-quarters decor, NASA has chosen Early American-style furniture by Sears, Roebuck...