Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, the only available hotel space in the area is in Boston. The Statler-Hilton is now "only partially filled", but is reported to be running out of rooms for Commencement Week quite rapidly...
Business: Frederick G. Donner, Crawford Greenewalt, Conrad Hilton, William McChesney Martin, Alfred P. Sloan, Juan Trippe, Thomas J. Watson. Eddie Rickenbacker, Richard Mellon, Gwilym A. Price, G. Keith Funston, Ralph Cordiner, Lynn A. Townsend, Elizabeth Arden...
...Voisin, Sardi's, and the Barnum & Bailey circus at Madison Square Garden. Fearful of a bad press, Moroccan officials hurriedly advised newsmen that the five Cadillacs were for a governmental car pool back home, and the piles of cloth would be used to outfit a new government-supervised Hilton hotel in Rabat...
Divorce, she insisted, has not been discussed or even considered. But up until three months ago, she had insisted that separation was also out of the question. Sybil Burton, silver-haired at 33, was clearly giving up on her 14-year marriage. Though Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher might find it premature to start the ritual of divorce or send out her towels for a new monogram, since Burton, however separate, is still a married man, things were definitely looking up. From Eddie Fisher, still Liz's husband of record, there were only yawns. His comment, as issued...
...most of these ventures. U.S. hotel chains invest little money themselves. Except for recent deals in The Netherlands and Rome, Hilton owns no share at all. Local governments provide funds or loans and tax incentives to investor syndicates that raise capital from such sources as Swiss banks, cautious pension funds, Texas oilmen and international millionaires. Investor appetites are whetted by such success stories as Intercontinental's Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, which cost $9,500,000 when it went in business last year and is now valued at $20 million...