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...living accommodations. The owner soon discovers that, by law, he may place his own family or servants in these quarters; but, when renting them to others, he finds they must have two means of egression. Thus he must either deface his home with an exterior fire escape or else remodel his whole house to provide a back stairway...
...Rexall store. And the odds are going down. Last week the United-Rexall Drug Inc., biggest in the U.S., floated a new $11,000,000 stock issue. With the proceeds, United will buy the 19-store Renfro chain in Texas (for $1,200,000), will enlarge and remodel the 541 stores it already has as well as some of the 10,000 affiliated Rexall druggists...
...previous books: A Curtain of Green (TIME, Nov. 24, 1941); The Wide Net (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943). In those short stories (which won her one Guggenheim Award and three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely...
...Orleans businessmen, with eyes cocked toward Latin America, have already plunked down $200,000 to buy two adjoining buildings in the business district, pledged themselves to plunk down $750,000 more to remodel them into a slick, air-conditioned home for a new International Trade Mart. Object: a year-round display of Mississippi Valley products...
...Chicago, a speculator paid $280,000 for a large apartment house on Lake Shore Drive. By threatening to remodel the building into smaller apartments (a legal cause for eviction), he forced the tenants to form a co-op and buy the building. His quick profit...