Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1943, after Mussolini had become the prisoner of Italy's Badoglio Government, it was Skorzeny whom Hitler personally assigned to rescue the Duce. After weeks of dime-thriller spy work he located Mussolini in an inaccessible hotel on the 9,560-ft. peak of the Gran Sasso in the Abruzzo Mountains northeast of Rome. He led an assault which reached the hotel by crash-landing gliders against the mountainside. Skorzeny reported: "Duce, the Führer has sent me as a token of his loyal friendship." They flew out together in a tiny plane which...
Cashing a Check. "The man asked me for identification. 'I require to return to the hotel,' I told him. 'I have not papers with me.' But the man said, 'Oh, never mind; here is the money.' Imagine-$200 without identification! Without signing papers! ... So friendly! So trusting...
...point, with the Red Sox in the lower division, the rumor got around that Joe had resigned. Reporters found him in his hotel room, naked except for a towel around his middle, drinking a bottle of beer. McCarthy, who had spent a year and a half in exile after leaving the Yankees, said: "I didn't come back into baseball to quit after two months...
...make its maiden run next month, when the New York Central System shows off its new $4,000,000 Twentieth Century Limited, the Central's first new Pullman streamliner in ten years. For the New York-Chicago run, the Central has designed a combination businessman's hotel and office, with showers, secretarial rooms, and telephones...
Fewer Voices, More Rooms. The boom in the hotel business had begun to taper off. Horwath & Horwath, accountants for the industry, reported that in the first half of 1948, the national occupancy rate was 88% of capacity, down from the 92% in the first six months...