Word: hotelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From early morning until midnight the pile driver banged, ringing in the heads of downtown office workers, rattling the windows in Kaufmann's department store, keeping guests awake in the William Penn Hotel, echoing through the narrow canyons of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Blasting intermittently shook the slab-side Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. which had hardly trembled through the depression...
...desk job in Washington. Home again as a brigadier general in the Army Reserve, Mellon took off his uniform and thought even harder. On the night he and Mrs. Mellon returned to Pittsburgh the city was engulfed in black smog so thick that from the William Penn Hotel they could not see the lights of the Mellon National Bank, half a block away...
...Russia's wartime policy of playing down the coming revolt of the masses, his onetime comrades gave his character a routine knifing, then abandoned him to the lonely death of a political heretic. But Browder refused to die. He hustled off to Moscow, checked into the best hotel in town, and paid a call on Molotov. Two months later Browder was back in the U.S. as American representative of three official Russian publishing houses. The Kremlin had apparently decided that Browder was a valuable option on the day when friendly cooperation between Communism and capitalism might once more...
After eight months in office, Secretary of State Dean Acheson this week made his first comprehensive statement on U.S. policy toward Latin America. To the 700 members and guests of the Pan American Society who heard his speech at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, it seemed more a reiteration of long-established principles than a blueprint...
...blaze going) that when one prosperous Catholic businessman was asked whether he had been around to see the new bishop he replied: "I'd like to, but I can't. I can't afford it." Last week, in the big ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, 155 members of Bishop O'Hara's clergy gathered to cele brate his tenth anniversary in the diocese...