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...objected to New Preperatory, or any of its predecessors, but Commonwealth Day was not so lucky. Only days after school officials began to move furniture and equipment into the building, they were slapped with a cease-and-desist order--requested by Arthur Brooks, a next-door-neighbor with several influential connections in the city...
Other types of contractors have been hammered hard. The construction firm Arthur Rubloff Real Estate and Capital Inc. recently abandoned plans to build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
Even medium-size companies can suddenly find themselves cut off from vital funds. Arthur Pappathanasi ran into a credit squeeze in January when he decided to expand West Lynn Creamery, a $200 million-a-year dairy business near Boston that his family has run for more than a half-century. His local bank, which had promised to add $3 million to the firm's $15 million line of credit, suddenly backed out and warned him that he would soon lose access to the original $15 million. That sent Pappathanasi on a frantic dash for cash that ended when he found...
...nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats and barrooms." (Theodore Roosevelt later restored colonial austerity...
...Arthur Hochstein (Deputy Art Director); Linda Louise Freeman (Covers); Steve Conley, Angel Ackemyer, James Elsis, Jennifer Napoli, Billy Powers, Irene Ramp, Ina Saltz, John F. White, Barbara Wilhelm (Associate Art Directors); Stefano Arata, Kenneth B. Smith (Assistant Art Directors); Joseph Aslaender, David Drapkin, Victoria Nightingale, Leah M. Purcell, Lisa Sampson, Nomi Silverman, Lisa C. Tremaine, Dennis Wheeler (Designers) Production: Paul Dovell (Manager); Carri Marks Traffic: John P. Dowd (Chief); Eugene Tick, Paul Hilzinger Maps and Charts: Paul J. Pugliese (Chief); Joe Lertola, E. Noel McCoy, Nino Telak, Deborah L. Wells Administration: Carrie A. Zimmerman...