Word: conway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London party last year, Harvey Dow Gibson, president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co., fell to chatting with a U.S. Army officer about skiing. -"Ever been to North Conway, New Hampshire?" the officer asked. Gibson said he had. The officer had lyric memories: "Wonderful skiing there on Cranmore Mountain. Grand hotel they have, too-the Eastern Slope Inn. And have you ever heard the Swiss orchestra at the inn? Wonderful orchestra...
Down the Mountain. Few skiers are aware that the sober, dignified head of the nation's sixth biggest bank is the owner of North Conway's sport facilities as well as its No. 1 caper-cutter. In seven years his capers have changed North Conway from a quiet little summer resort (which went into hibernation every October) into the nation's busiest ski center...
...with Sales. Last week North Conway was in the middle of its best season. The 250-bed Inn, where rates range up to a stiff $30 a day, had a waiting list of 2,000 names...
...weekends when skiing conditions are good, the special snow trains of the Boston & Maine railroad pour as many as 3,000 skiers into North Conway. They sleep in the Skimobile house and even in the village jail. And they wilt spend about $2,500,000 this season in the village stores...
...many a North Conway Yankee doesn't like what's happening. In tight-lipped down-east fashion, they object to "all this foreign element" from New York. They don't relish losing their wintertime leisure, just to make more money than they had ever dreamed of. Grumbled one: "We're so busy we don't even have time to look at that mountain any more...