Word: linens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Factory Furnished. The process is remarkably efficient because every guest room is not only precast but completely pre-equipped. Everything from plumbing and wiring to light bulbs, bed linen and furniture (which is bolted to the floor or walls) is installed before the rooms leave a factory-like production line seven miles from the site. To allow workmen space to repair pipes and wires in later years, the room modules are set 20 inches apart and the resulting gaps in the hotel's facade are filled with brick. To provide corridors, the back of each room module comes with...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council voted last night to return to committee a proposal for taxing the HSA Linen Service, effectively killing the measure...
...Sheet Committee had considered a proposal for taxing each of the Linen Service's depots within the Houses. Proceeds from such a tax would have gone to the House Committee...
Tobias reacted quickly to HUC members' questions saying, "By paying the student workers in the linen service $2.50 per hour and by having fewer subscribers than last year because of the poorer service of the depot system, out profits are lower than last year." Advocates of the tax had indicated the linen services profits were higher this year...
...depot system was adopted after pressure from the Gordon Linen Service which sub-contracts the HSA service. Harvard had been the only one of forty schools serviced by Gordon which did not use a depet system. The company had advised the HSA that they would not continue the contract at the present price unless deliveries to individual rooms were eliminated...