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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building interior first of all required proper lighting-26.250 watts' worth, twice the amount needed for the torch lights on the Statue of Liberty. Strock's lighting plans called for the erection of two towers, each one studded from top to bottom with sockets ten inches apart to hold the 375-watt bulbs. These towers, mounted on rubber casters, were to be moved slowly around the room to synchronize with the turning of the camera...
...service cost them. ABC paid about $500,000 out of pocket to feed the hearings to as many as 71 outlets, estimated that it would have cost an advertiser $2,700,000 to sponsor the entire telecast of the hearings. The smaller (ten stations) DuMont network used $700,000 worth of air time to carry the hearings, would not say how much the telecasts actually cost...
...releases from the Wall Street Journal (circ. 258,448). When the W.SJ. tried to get the company's production figures through the Associated Press, G.M. also refused to give them to the A.P. On top of that, G.M. canceled all its advertising in the Journal-about $250,000 worth a year...
...hotel systems in the world. Founded by the late E. M. Statler in Buffalo in 1908, the chain is now the third biggest (after Hilton, Sheraton) in the U.S., with eight hotels and two office buildings, in Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Washington, New York and Los Angeles, worth $67 million. Having already built four of the seven major U.S. hotels put up in the last 25 years, the chain is working on two more: a 455-room, $7,000,000 Statler tailored to fit medium-size Hartford, Conn.; a 1,000-room, $15 million Statler for booming Dallas...
Economy. Though legendarily a "banana republic," Guatemala actually grows six times as much coffee ($70 million worth a year) as bananas ($12 million yearly). Other exports: chicle, mahogany, essential oils. The U.S. buys 76% of Guatemala's products, sells Guatemala 64% of all that she buys. By paying high prices for coffee, the U.S. helps Guatemala keep the currency at par with the dollar, and the government budget healthy. Communist agitation has ruined a flourishing tourist trade once worth $2,500,000 a year...