Word: hotelmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Quickly the trouble spread. In Chicago, irate restaurateurs and hotelmen acidly asked OPA: how could they go on serving fruit and juices at ceiling prices? Indignant housewives went on strike, began serving prunes for breakfast. Moaned one Detroit retailer, watching his fruit rot on the shelves: "It's terrible. The customers...
Atlantic City hotelmen complained that Hollywood too often pictured their resort as a week-end hideaway for the boss and his secretary, asked that the movies indicate that at least some men go there with their wives. The casual remark of a popular star - "They say white bread is not good for you" - brought thousands of angry letters from millers, bakers, wheat farmers. The Hays Office keeps a weather eye out for such unwitting antagonizers, warns producers to avoid them wherever possible...
...agents rounded up 20 carloads of desks, 400 typewriters with French, Spanish and Russian keyboards, cartons of pens, pencils, binders and ink bottles. Police departments in New York, Chicago and New Orleans picked detectives to prowl San Francisco looking for New York, Chicago and New Orleans crooks. San Francisco hotelmen sweated at the thankless job of shooing guests...
Then in an excess of zeal, the Army's Second Service Command ruled that enlisted men could not even eat in New York restaurant-bars after midnight. Hotelmen and bar and night club operators began shutting up at 12 again, shuddering at the idea of trying to separate service men from liquor or food an hour before civilians went home...
Thus the Army made a neat profit of almost $700,000 on its white elephant. Except for Winner Kirkaby, who said the Stevens would be doing business in 60 days, Chicago hotelmen were not so happy. They remembered a sad Chicago maxim: nobody makes money in the hotel business when "the world's biggest hotel" (3,000 rooms) is taking in roomers...