Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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MAIL ORDER LIFE INSURANCE will be a major item in the new catalogue of Chicago's Aldens, Inc., fourth largest mail order company, if the Illinois Insurance Department approves. By eliminating agents' commissions (often 50% of first-year premium), Aldens plans to sell its insurance at lower prices...
STORE-CHAIN PURCHASE made by Maxwell H. Gluck, former U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, boosts to 247 the number of women's-wear stores he controls. For $2,500,000 he bought control of Grayson-Robinson Stores, adding its 107 women's-wear and four camera stores, with $64...
The $25 million San Francisco Hilton was planned to be unique among world hotels. It would ingeniously combine the best features of a hotel and a motel. On seven of its 18 floors, rooms would sur round a garage core, built under a roof garden and serviced by a spiral...
During more than a year of tedious negotiating, Hayes demanded 140 separate changes, and Tabler gave in on 124. The changes and delays added $2,000,000 to costs. But to give in on the remaining 16 would throw building costs so high that the project would be uneconomical. Hilton...
One-Man Boom. Cherubic Bill Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes. Since 1946, when he began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest...