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...West Berlin's big Kaufhaus des Westens, scare buying tapered off after a few days ; citizens jammed the Kurfürstendamm's fancy restaurants, queued in block-long lines for movies. West Berlin's new Hilton Hotel opened with a shimmer of celebrities flown in from Manhattan. Siemens announced a new $8.6 million program for expanding its West Berlin electrical-equipment operation, promising 2,000 new jobs. Bonn decided to boost its $260 million annual subsidy to the West Berlin government by more than a third...
...middle class are enticing. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Erasto Urbina, once a barefoot peon on a southern coffee plantation, now runs a store that amply provides for his family of 8. Juan Carrasco, bellhop and car-parker at the capital's Continental Hilton, proudly drives his own green 1947 Plymouth...
...built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...Stockpile. A big reason for Western steadiness was that West Berlin is a far more prosperous and populous community than the naked city that so desperately withstood Stalin's 1948-49 blockade. Business is booming, the hammering sounds of construction fill the air, the shell of a new Hilton Hotel is rising near the sleek shops of the Kurfurstendamm...
...Texas borrowers that it was no longer necessary to go to New York, Florence gave Republic the most impressive face in Dallas-a $25 million, 40-story building sheathed in aluminum. The skyscraper has acted as a magnet to bring Dallas such other structures as the new Hotel Statler Hilton...