Word: rolltop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bugaboo. Among Boston newsmen, the passing of an era was little mourned. The warrens on Washington Street-cluttered city rooms, wire-cage elevators, battered rolltop desks-symbolized the musty editorial policies of the papers. "We've tried everything else," said one Globeman. "Maybe a change of scenery will get us-and the rest of the papers -up off our duffs...
Lost: $1,000,000. Precise, prim-looking and uncertain, J.D.R. Jr. started work amid the massive rolltop desks, mustard-colored carpets and bare walls of his father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost...
...small office in Sears' block-long home in Chicago, which, in 1905, when it was opened, was the "world's largest office building." Wood still uses the same walnut desk that Rosenwald used, sits in the same leather chair, keeps extra papers in another traditional rolltop desk in the corner. But there is nothing old-fashioned about Wood's business philosophy; he runs Sears "in terms of the democratic spirit." Says Wood: "We put our faith in men, not systems. I like to let a man learn by making a few mistakes, as long as they...
...this week became the first to hit the market. It unveiled the Rambler, * a small (100-inch wheelbase), trim, five-passenger convertible with an 82-h.p. motor. Most notable feature: the top does not fold down but slides down through heavy steel side-rails like the top of a rolltop desk. The price: $1,808, including radio, heater and air-conditioner, about $300 less than the bigger Ford and Chevrolet convertibles with similar equipment...
...Does It Matter to You?" When Kenneth Oberholtzer moved into Room 212 and sat down at its old rolltop desk, he wasted no time finding out what Denver needed. In his conservative blue suits and quiet ties, he went around to P.T.A. groups, called meetings of teachers and principals to talk things over. He persuaded the University of Denver to make a survey of his schools, then got a committee of 100 leading citizens to determine how much money the schools needed...