Word: tiled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Trujillo's press attacking them steadily, and with his sanitary inspectors likely to drop in any time to assess heavy fines for a loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...
...operating room itself, walled in apple-green glass tile, is soundproof, dustproof, conditioned by gravity-fed air, and as nearly germproof and explosion-proof as human ingenuity can make it. Above the operating table, which can be tilted six ways, is a television camera (nested in a battery of lights) with lenses for closeup, normal and wide-view shots. The surgeons, anesthesiologist and physiologist wear combination stethoscope-intercom receivers...
...ranges a long barbecue counter with roasting spit and charcoal grill; along the others, a bookcase, radio and record player, a long grey couch, a low table and comfortable chairs. <¶A startling white and orange-red Japanese Sunroom Bath by Designer John Wisner, which puts a huge white-tile tub smack into what otherwise looks like a pleasant, modern living room. ¶ A peaceful French provincial dining room by New Jersey Designer Lester Byock and his wife, who have an interesting idea for walls: plain pine panels washed with thin yellow varnish, then overlaid with a white rococo design...
EIGHTEEN fancy Southwestern motels, anxious to give motels a better reputation, have banded together into a blue-ribbon trade association, the Master Hosts. Qualifications for membership: year-round air conditioning, tile baths, a swimming pool...
...fortune of $50 million in gold in four years. At war's end, Bodo, then 25, was "the richest Greek in the world." But, four years later, when Kemal Ataturk threw the Greeks out of Turkey, he was wiped out again. He moved to Athens, got into the tile business, and went bust once more. Says he: "I had to start again from the letter alpha...