Word: hotelmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last of Its Kind? The rush for rooms with a view abroad is a godsend for the big U.S. hotelmen, since business at home is not what it used to be. Speedy jets have made it possible for businessmen to fly into a city and out again swiftly, transacting all their business in one day. Families traveling by car have long since bypassed downtown hotels for motels and plush motor hotels. Hotel occupancy rates have shriveled from 93% in 1946 to 62%. More and more U.S. hotels depend on convention business-and, luckily, it is good and growing. Last year...
...proprietor argues that "white people just aren't going to bowl with colored people-they don't want to use a ball that Negroes have been using." John Carswell, a Chapel Hill drugstore owner, contends that desegregation of his lunch counter would cause "incidents," and many Southern hotelmen profess to fear that if they admitted Negroes, their white trade would go to competitors...
...speed of jets permits businessmen to fly into a city in the morning and home again at night; this has cut the average stay in the nation's convention hotels from 4 days to 2½. And most hotelmen are convinced that Federal Tax Chief Mortimer Caplin's crackdown on expense accounts will cut the average hotel bill still more. "If the IRS rules remain as stringent as they are now, it'll murder us roomwise," worries Manager Ed Crowley of Los Angeles' Sheraton-West. "Guests who usually bring their wives or stay an extra...
Price Wars. Sonnabend is worried about the developing price war among hotelmen who have started offering special family rates, tourist class rooms, and discounts on rooms to big corporate users and conventions. Says Sonnabend: "We seem to have forgotten the expensive lesson of the Great Depression, when we discovered that the total market for hotel rooms is rather inflexible and that cutting prices really did not help...
...Politicians are perplexed, responsible people are confused, workers are restless and officials fearful - all waiting for the man ordained by Providence," said the Jornal do Brasil. Besides, cacao shippers wanted to change export policies, hotelmen com plained (naming no names) that Brazilians spend more in foreign hotels than in their own, São Paulo politicians wanted Quadros to name a candidate for mayor...