Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan-a town whose citizens assay high for canniness-a leisure-loving group of bums made a delightful discovery last year. They discovered that life and even love on the dole was not such a bad racket. A sharp operator could live in a good hotel room (even when travelers were being turned away) and get generous allowances for restaurant meals simply by talking fast and avoiding employment. And he could sometimes live the good, gay life for months without hindrance by welfare authorities...
...city welfare department had supported one woman and her three children in a good hotel room despite the fact that 1) she seemed to be acting as a front for bookies, and 2) her husband earned $100 a week and used $90 of it to pay off a $14,000 debt incurred in passing bad checks. Another woman used her room to entertain "boy friends" (one of whom threatened to knock the hotel detective's block off) and kept her five children playing in the lobby until midnight, to the distraction of the desk clerk...
...collected $40,000 in the process. She had sold $20,000 worth of stocks & bonds in 1942. When she came to Manhattan with her illegitimate daughter, the welfare department had put her on a $222.75-a-month allowance and had allowed her to stay at a hotel of her own choice. When a welfare investigator called, Madam X had "awed" him by appearing in a mink coat and a mink...
...purely one-sided. Princeton has its Orange Key Society, Dartmouth its Green Key, and so on through the Ivy League schools, to solve just this problem. The Key organizations, partly honorary and partly functional societies, send representatives to meet the teams at the train, to guide them to their hotel or dormitory, and in general to see that they are taken care of throughout the weekend. At some of the colleges, the society provides tickets for any current dance or festivity, and at all of them it makes sure that the visitors can get into a dance, even...
...passengers' lot has also been improved. When Cullman first inspected the field, he concluded that "they treat them worse than at Haifa." Waiting rooms were cleaned up, customs procedures speeded. But the passengers were still not happy enough for Cullman. At Idlewild they will have a hotel and, he hopes, a sports arena and an auditorium. By 1960 Cullman expects all three ports to be shopping and amusement centers, employing a combined total of 37,000 and earning enough from their concessionaires to pay for their own development...