Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating headquarters, his home is a suite of rooms atop the Mellon-U.S. Steel Building; in Manhattan, his home is a Park Avenue apartment minutes away from the corporate policymaking headquarters. He often starts his day at 4 a.m. or 5 a.m. sitting quietly in his den or kitchen working out corporate problems on a yellow pad of legal paper, and his workday rarely ends before 7 or 8. His free time is generally spent with his wife in a sprawling Victorian house in Hawley, Pa.; it is her family home and they were married there, have never given...
...biggest strike in the history of U.S. hospitals bedeviled New York City last week. At six voluntary, nonprofit hospitals (four in Manhattan, one each in. The Bronx and Brooklyn), nurses' aides, orderlies, porters, kitchen and laundry help hit the bricks on orders of Local 1199, Retail Drug Employees Union, A.F.L.-C.I.O. This week, with no settlement in sight, the union was threatening to strike several more hospitals...
...insistence on the practical. Comfort is largely a matter of habit, he argues; his house might seem uncomfortable at first, yet not remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built into one of the supporting pillars beneath. Radiant heating will keep the house snug. Storage space exists in abundance between the interior and exterior shells of the building...
...Long's 7,500-house Maryvale development, seven miles northwest of Phoenix, he sells a house with three bedrooms, two baths, an all-electric kitchen, a garage and a 28-ft. swimming pool-all for $11,750. Long's houses, ranging from $8,975 to $25,950, offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National...
...like Sawyer, young Duluoz is a fair-weather rebel, and he generally rambles home in time for dinner. The book, some of its pages all but yellowed with nostalgia, is an elegy to the warm, safe smells of a tenement kitchen and the dark mysteries of a city neighborhood...