Word: tearooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brawling mining camp to a vital metropolis, I. W.'s enterprises grew with it. I. W. put up $560 million worth of real estate subdivisions, introduced the chain store, cafeteria and American-style drugstore to South Africa. He gradually bought up most of South Africa's "tearoom bioscopes" (combination cafe-movie theaters), then added a catering service to supply them. Catering led him into the hotel and restaurant business. When he died in 1949, he was involved in nearly every sector of the economy...
...luxury, we have to decide what kind of waste space suits today's living and today's economics. We don't need a reading room or writing room any more. No one uses them; correspondence is a dying art. We have no need of a tearoom...
...roughly 2,500 years, the franchised readers of the human palm have been gypsies. Last week, not from a tearoom but from the cardiac clinic of New Orleans' Charity Hospital, came a new palm reading technique-one that may help doctors to learn more about congenital heart defects...