Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Alexander Drew, Premier of Ontario, suddenly turned up (via Trans-Canada Air Lines) in London. He bustled around to see Cabinet members, assorted lords and M.P.s. At the Savoy Hotel, he gave a party for about 400 of the U.K.'s biggest bigwigs. He spent a good deal of time at Ontario House...
...Rome and mail it to him. That saved the 15% U.S. tax ($158). Other tourists would not save as much by this trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running his own black exchange, gave him 230 francs to the dollar (official rate...
Winston Churchill received from Premier Paul Ramadier, in a ceremony in the court of Paris' Hotel des Invalides, France's highest military decoration, the Médaille Militaire, and with it the traditional perquisites: the right to an annual tobacco allowance of 200 francs ($1.65) and the privilege of billing the President of France for transportation in the event of illness (for instance, cab fare home if he became intoxicated...
...luncheon in the Commodore Hotel that day he attended to the Lord's business exclusively. He addressed a meeting of the Sunday School Association, and it awarded him a certificate for his religious work. Said Mr. Rank: "I believe that the best way we can spread the gospel of Christ is through movies." Then Mr. Rank went about his own-and the Empire's-business, which is to spread British movies all over the globe. In a swirl of breakfasts, luncheons, teas, cocktail parties and after-theater snacks, he confabbed with RKO Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century...
...learn, Rank works 18 hours a day. He spends a half-day a week on his flour-mill affairs, the rest of the week on his movies. He is up and into a cup of tea by 7 a.m. in his suite in London's Dorchester Hotel. Before 8, in pops John Davis, 39, a slim, sharp Englishman who is Rank's general manager and heir apparent. He occupies the neighboring suite so that his encyclopedic movie knowledge, learned in 18 years in the business, is always at hand. By 9:30, Rank is in his office...