Word: high-class
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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...
...downtown Dallas, exuberant Texans and holidaying Oklahomans put on so many pre-and post-game celebrations that the Dallas police, without trying to spoil the show, hauled in 452 celebrators in 48 hours. In a day-night doubleheader in mammoth Cotton Bowl, 151,045 spectators also saw some high-class football...
...make-6 ft. 3 by 22 was the largest. Son, the morticians had to fit them in with a shoehorn. All because the Government didn't know people had been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn't get them any more, so we had to use wood. Now, you tell me, where's the eye appeal in a wooden handle...
...Supposing ten years ago your grandmother passed away," continued Lem, bowing his head in an automatic reflex of respect. "Maybe she had one of our high-class caskets, maybe she had the middle or low class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside...
...Reduce Prices with Pain." Fewer rickshas, buses and pedicabs are to be seen on the streets. Automobiles are mostly official; gas for private cars costs $1.40 a gallon. An unused 1948 Buick, offered for sale at $500 recently, found no buyers. Casualties are highest among high-class restaurants, bars, cafes, Western-style tailors, fashion shops and department stores. Said a Chinese trader who recently visited Hong Kong: "Between the Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout...