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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven out of every ten shirts that come in have lipstick traces. While the averages varied, all cleaners agreed the lipstick percentages were notably higher during the fall and winter season, especially after dances. "Guess the boys go all out when they get dressed up, said John B. Iacoucel, owner of the cleaning establishment at 34 Dunster Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careless Love Smudges on Crimson Laundry Reveal Lurid Shirt Tales | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...graduate body remained relatively untouched. Gold Coast cleaners reported a low percentage of lipstick stains from the business school. "I guess the boys know how to take care of themselves by that time," the owner said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Careless Love Smudges on Crimson Laundry Reveal Lurid Shirt Tales | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...company named Connecticut Boola, Inc. paid $4,500,000 to R. H. Macy & Co., to buy Macy's spanking new nine-story building in San Francisco. But there is nothing obscure about Connecticut Boola's parent: Boola is the wholly owned subsidiary of Yale University. The new owner promptly leased the store back to Macy's for 31 years and two months, at an average annual rental of $240,000. Thus Yale became Macy's San Francisco landlord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Moola for Boola | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...investment. Macy's would get its $4,500,000 out of dead brick & mortar into lively working capital, still have the use of the building. Since the rent is taxexempt, it is probably lower than Macy's would have to pay to a taxpaying owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Moola for Boola | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...money in such jobs, sometimes there isn't. But I'd rather break even on a monumental building than make a million on an uninspired warehouse." Nevertheless, McShain did well enough to buy the 600-room Barclay Hotel on Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square, to become part owner of the 400-room Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, and co-owner and president of the Atlantic City Traction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: White House Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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