Boston's War Memorial Auditorium Upstages Home Show
Boston’s New England Home Show faced stiff competition as the War Memorial Auditorium within the Prudential Center complex drew crowds. The 34.5 acres of space includes a main hall for 4,000 and a balcony for 2,000, with exhibitors showing kitchen cabinets, epoxy paints, waterproofing, leisure homes, and office suites.
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Boston
New War Memorial
New England
New War Memorial Auditorium
War Memorial Auditorium
Prudential Center Complex
Assembly Hall
Prudential
Prudential Building
Pittsfield
General Electric
Techbuilt, Inc
Cambridge
Massachusettts Company
New Seabury
Cape Cod
Memorial Building
Prudential Center
Massachusetts Turnpike
Prudential Complex
Atlantic Avenue
Pier 4
Northern Avenue
Logan International Airport
Enlarging a Bedroom Closet with Sliding Doors
A reader asks for plans to enlarge a bedroom closet and install sliding doors. The House Doctor explains load bearing concerns, step by step framing, door sizing, plaster work, jamb alignment, headers, and door hardware while warning to hire a professional for structural work and plastering.
Color Range of Western Red Cedar for Paneling
Western red cedar offers a natural color range from white to gold to deep red brown. Panel boards are selected to display this range, or can be chosen to form a Wall of uniform color.
Group urges investors to aid integrated housing effort
Washington group named National Committee on Tithing in Investment asks churches labor unions and nonprofits to invest 10 percent of funds in integrated housing. Led by Rep. Fraser the drive cites capital shortages hindering 1.5 million annual housing units and aims to recruit 3,000 sponsors from diverse sectors to influence investment policy and identify supportive banks and brokers.
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Washington
UPI
National Committee On
Donald M. Fraser
D-Minn
Fraser
Penson
Eliot D. Pratt
Goddard College
Plainfield
Current Magazine
Daniel M. Singer
Washington, D.C
Seth M. Glickenhaus
New York Stock Exchange
Elvie Kaplan
Boston
Emil Mazey
United Auto Workers
Morris Milgram
Planned Communities, Inc
Modern Community Developers, Inc
Philadelphia
John J. O'Connor
Georgetown University
Sterling Tucker
Mass Contracts Down Slightly in January
Massachusetts January construction contracts totaled 66,091,000, a 13 percent drop from January 1964. Nonresidential contracts declined 42 percent to 16,675,000, residential fell 16 percent to 29,788,000, while non building work rose 72 percent to 19,628,000, per F W Dodge Co. district manager J Thomas Ryan.
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Boston
F. W. Dodge Co
McGraw-Hill, Inc
Massachusetts
Dodge
J. Thomas Ryan
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Edward J. Farrell
IBM
National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association
C. M. Farrell & Son, Inc
Easy Credit
L. R. Sweatland, Tr
South Street
Baraly
Ecap Eatroy
Uae
Herman Baum
Lh.s
F.B
C.T
Tek
Focia
The
Regieread Tribune
Syndice
Berkshire Lumber Co
EE Kefiir
Rittsfeld
S&h
ELMCO
Ral
Arnolds
East St
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Dial
Sinclair
S&h Srines
Thatcher
Lipton’s
Pittsfield Iron Works & Coal Supply
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