Word: maytag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dickering for over two months with the Maytag-Gray Company, distributors for Maytag washers and dryers in the Boston area. Dunster has worked out a system under which it will pay $200 of the $630 installation charge, while Maytag foots the rest...
Adams, Leverett, and Eliot are especially eager to work out an inter-House system because Maytag is unwilling to foot large installation charges in all of these Houses...
Like Kirkland, Dunster will get 20 percent of the 25 cent take on each washer and dryer, virtually all of which it must pay for water and electricity. However, Maytag has agreed to let the House take everything made on the machines over two dollars per day until the $200 is paid...
...Since Maytag has temporarily refused to foot so large a bill, the House Committees are working on a plan to set up two central laundry centers. The proposed Kirkland center would serve Eliot and Winthrop, and the one at Leverett would cover Lowell, Adams, and Dunster. A Maytag representative last night agreed that this may be a way to solve the problem...
Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Operating Manager of Houses and College Dormitories, last night emphasized that the negotiations are solely between the House committees and Maytag. He stressed that the University has nothing at all to do with the agreement...