Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control such remote printings as TIME'S. TIME has seven machines and nine men to keep them operating. Most of them work a two-day, 20-hour week teletypesetting, and spend the rest of their time on allied production jobs. One has to put up at a nearby hotel on Tuesday to be on hand for late news breaks...
...York Democrats were eating high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
...Jungfrau's peak gleamed in the distance; the River Aare rushed through Bern beneath the hotel window. The mild, wistful-eyed man who had tried to get along with everybody (including the Communists) had with him his timid little wife and his beautiful young daughter, Juliette. But Ferenc Nagy (pronounced Nodge) was uneasy: he was not enjoying his Swiss vacation from his duties as Premier of Hungary...
...terms he could make with the Communists. They told him they would let his four-year-old son, Laszlo, join him in exile. Nagy went around to the Hungarian legation and announced that he would resign as Premier as soon as Laszlo arrived. Then he went back to the hotel, disconnected his phone and went to bed. Said a fellow countryman: "I'll bet Nagy was the only Hungarian in Bern who slept that night...
Scarcity in a Show Place. Like most Americans in Moscow, the Atkinsons lived in the large, gloomy maze called the Metropole Hotel. Their one small room was kitchen, dining room, bedroom, study and part-time office. Meals were prepared on a one-plate electric stove and Mrs. Atkinson remembers in detail her daily forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts...