Word: beckland
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High Standards. Almost all the tramps do their work with one elbow firmly propped on a bar. Last week Harold Beckland, proprietor of Managua's Gran Hotel, decided to lay down some ground rules for the game. For the benefit of the scores of promoters who daily congregate in his lobby, he posted this notice: "Discussions of business deals involving less than $500,000 not permitted in this lobby. This is a high-class hotel." As a bittersweet note, Beckland added: "Credit at the bar-even to half-million-dollar operators-will not be extended until the first gold...
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