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After its fashion, Hollywood was doing its bit to fight the high cost of living. Paddock Engineering Co., which has built almost all of California's swimming pools (50% of those in the U.S.), gravely announced a "People's Pool." Through ads in Los Angeles papers, this symbol of high living was placed within easy reach of the common man; a swimming pool could be ordered by merely sending in the tearaway coupon. The price: $2,500. By last week, 63 orders had been placed for People's Pools...
Hollywood liked the seamless bowls so much that Paddock, pool-purveyor to cinemoguls since 1922, hired Ilsley as a consultant. When Pascal Paddock, company president, decided to sell in 1939, Ilsley bought him out for a mere $17,000. During the war, Ilsley built pools and water tanks for the Army & Navy, thus was ready to dive back into private pools at war's end. Now he produces about one custom-made pool a day (average cost: about $10,000), paid himself $41,000 last year in salary and bonuses. The company netted $59,730. With the People...
...Coast horse fan, convinced that betting on Willie is as good a way as any to win, bet on everything he sent to the post. They did it without Willie's blessing; like Jacobs, Willie seldom bets on a horse race, and never more than $10. (A typical paddock conversation goes like this: Owner: "Well, Willie, how do you like my horse today?" Willie: "I like him a little." Owner: "Good bet to win?" Willie: "He might...
...spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become Olymp, but Munich's bettors, who poured more than a million marks a day into the tote windows, could still catch a glimpse of the Bavarian aristocracy strolling in the paddock, dressed in the last word in Paris (1941) fashions...
...passenger Stratocruiser, foaled in the same stable as the speedy B29. Consolidated Vultee is betting on the 400-passenger transport version of its XB-36 (stablemate of purse-winners like the Liberator, Catalina). In Burbank, Calif, this week the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. led its entry out of the paddock...