Word: astors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was how the President of the U.S. came last week to appear before the A.M.A. in Manhattan's Astor Hotel with a plain-spoken report on the recession ("Not all our economic troubles are over by any means") and some strong ideas about what business and labor could do to help the economy. He nominated a "whole kit and caboodle" of economic notions "for oblivion." Items...
...Astor to Oscilloscope. New York's modernized old (1904) Astor Hotel reminded Old Soldier Eisenhower of more leisurely times. "During my cadet days at West Point," he told New York Promoter William Zeckendorf. "I stayed at the Astor when I was in the city, but I did not get a bill until after I was graduated, and the management gave me 25% off." Soon the Columbine lifted him back to Washington and more technological advance. He headed a Cadillac cavalcade out to inaugurate the National Broadcasting Co.'s new Washington color-TV studios. Staring at winking oscilloscopes...
...mother, a sister of Lady Astor and the late Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, was one of the five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia...
MANHATTAN'S ASTOR PLAZA, bogged down for lack of funds, will be rescued bv First National City Bank, third biggest in U.S. Bank will take over lease on Park Avenue site, between 53rd and 54th Streets, where Vincent Astor intended to erect $75 million slab skyscraper (TIME. Oct. 1, 1956). will put up a building...
...oldest of these, the American Management Association, has blossomed from only twelve conferences in 1949 to 1,200 courses, seminars and conferences this year. This fall it opened a $2,000,000 Academy of Advanced Management at Saranac Lake, N.Y., also offers courses at Manhattan's Sheraton-Astor Hotel and in nine other cities. Its programs are broadly divided into studies of basic-management principles, organization-building, planning and controlling, and appraisal of operational performance. They include a deadly earnest game in which five teams of executives battle to win shares of a mythical common market. Like an adult...