Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
...chemical change was mothered by necessity. Caught by such pressures as growing competition in Latin America from other U.S. firms (especially small free-wheeling operators with little overhead) and a worldwide textile slump, Grace's profits skidded from $18.2 million in 1947 to $9,480,000 last year, although the gross climbed from about $175 million to $269 million...
Another suggested help to overhead and audience happiness: a bar in the theater. Said Cullman: "Half the delight of the London theater is getting a good Scotch that helps a bad show...
Manhattan has not had a new theater, Cullman noted, since 1927. For the past two years the City Council has studied the possibilities, but has done nothing about revising the building code to permit theaters in office and apartment buildings. Not only would this cut down real-estate overhead, but with present building methods such a theater would be "as safe as Gimbels' basement...
...running battle with the weather (five concerts rained out) and airplanes. After a series of appeals to La Guardia Field, pilots agreed to cooperate by routing their nights away from the stadium during the concerts, and the number of pianissimo passages drowned out by droning engines overhead went down from 14 (on opening night) to an average of two a night at the end of the season...