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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of the money saved by the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the more expensive alternate solutions of the Stadium problem may well bring up the question of what this money has been saved for. At the end of the fiscal year last June the Harvard Athletic Association had on hand a balance of $393,939.72. Estimates of surplus to be added to this figure this year are upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. From the total balance of approximately $520,000.00 will be subtracted the price of the steel stands, roughly $170,000, which leaves...
...meeting, Monday, the Harvard Corporation voted to permit the Athletic Association to fill the open end of the Soldiers Field Stadium with permanent steel stands and to replace the wooden stands which cover the track inside the enclosure during the football season with temporary steel structures...
...decision to erect the steel stands ends a problem which has been current for two years since the temporary wooden structures were condemned by the Building Commission. Since then three alternatives have been open to the Athletic authorities, namely: to fill in the open end with concrete stands; to erect temporary steel structures; and to build permanent steel stands...
Upon investigation, it was found that the cost of erecting a concrete structure would involve too great a cost since the seats at the open end are undesirable. Bolted temporary steel stands were also found impractical inasmuch as the cost of erecting them and removing them would amount to about $40,000 annually...
...example of the tremendous strides made in retail merchandising is the R. H. Macy Company, which in the past twenty-five or forty years has grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...