Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comforts of Home. In Hoehenrain, Germany, after police barred Broom Maker Hans Christian Sachsenhammer from local bars because of excessive drinking, Sachsenhammer's wife petitioned to have the ban lifted, explained: "Now he has his beer delivered to the house, throws the empty bottles at the children and works even less than before...
...American continent." In about five years, the building boom has raised the height of typical buildings in Caracas, Venezuela from one to 20-odd stories. Such handsome buildings as the auditorium of Caracas' University City, with its high concrete vault filled with free-floating colored panels by U.S. Mobile Maker Alexander Calder, have put Venezuelan Architect Carlos Raśl Villanueva in the front rank of Latin American designers. Puerto Rico boasts a well-done hotel, the Caribe Hilton, and Henry Klumb's outstanding Catholic church near San Juan...
...company's quickest killing came during Hollywood's 3-D bonanza in 1953. As the only U.S. maker of the glasses needed to see movies in depth, it was soon making 12 million pairs a month, grossed over $26 million that year. In 1954, when 3-D dwindled and died, Polaroid was doing so well with other products that profits stayed up over the million-dollar mark. In 1955 Polaroid will probably net close...
...Show for Baby. Eddie's father was a music-loving costume-jewelry maker in Providence who scraped together enough money in 1933 to send his 16-year-old son to the Vienna conservatory. Two years later, Eddie returned to New York, but could not even sing up a good supper, let alone rent; at one point he was sleeping in Central Park. As a last resort, he joined up with a vocal quintet that played second-class movie and burlesque houses. To supplement their meager take, the members sometimes rented advertising space on the backs of their costumes...
...Administration had expected it would. Housing starts in September dropped below 1954 levels. Next year, said the Veterans Administration, new housing starts will probably fall to 1,100,000, or 200,000 below the '55 level. In Manhattan, the First National City Bank, the city's leading maker of personal loans, hiked interest rates from $3.83 per $100 to $4.25, the first rise since 1937. The Chase National Bank also boosted its rates. Prices started to edge up for a growing number of basic materials-steel pipe, cement, nickel, platinum, shellac, plumbing fixtures-and increases loomed for dinnerware...