Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season of opera going full blast in the City Park stadium, was drawing an audience of 4,000 a night. If the box office held good, Loubat hoped to net $25,000, sufficient for a down payment on the old opera-house plot. Loubat also hoped to follow his outdoor opera with a winter season in New Orleans' Municipal Auditorium. Rock-bottom estimates on his rebuilding plan run to about $285,000. He thought he might be able to rebuild...
...favorite gag on the West Coast used to be: Foster never speaks to Kleiser and Kleiser never speaks to Foster, they just make signs. But war's dimouts and blackouts ruined the gag, pushed Foster & Kleiser, biggest West Coast outdoor advertising sign men (second biggest in the world), into doing much more than making signs...
...never expected to be in it in the first place. He was a dentist in San Francisco with $10,000 and a hankering to get into some business "where the work goes on while you sleep." Then (1900) he met slim, sign-wise Walter Foster, who pointed out that outdoor signs work 24 hours a day. So Kleiser and Foster picked up a $75,000 advertising business in Portland and Seattle for $5,000 cash (they gave notes for the rest), expanded it up & down the coast, were grossing an average of $5,500,000 yearly when war blacked...
...Trainasium"-a combination obstacle course and outdoor gym-he discovered that one of his rookies was pretty good. The rookie turned out to be Peter Domato Scalzo, recent world's featherweight champion. Before long Private (First Class) Scalzo, put to work as coach and referee, had the whole 311th Regiment dreaming of knockouts...
...Amateur Athletic Union, eager to have Hägg match strides with Super-Runner Gregory Rice in the national outdoor championships in New York City June 19-20, finally got him priority to cross the Atlantic by plane. But last week, on the eve of his scheduled departure, a Stockholm news despatch cryptically announced that Gunder Hägg had left for the U.S. on a Swedish tanker...