Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dear Mr. Putrilluh." But New Yorkers did not share the Peglerian appetite for musicless meals. Business dropped in Manhattan's huge, noise-deadened ballrooms. Out-of-town affiliates of struck New York hotels were hit by sympathy walkouts. Chicago's Palmer House, part of the Hilton chain, bravely put on its Empire Room show without an orchestra. The handful of customers groaned...
...Fare of Power. Tito has obliged. Since the lean days of mountain fighting, his girth has increased considerably on the rich fare of power (and on sweets). He likes good eating. At official banquets, he serves whole roast boars, huge Polish hams, gallons of Dalmatian wine. Like his master, Tito's favorite Alsatian dog Tiger has also put on weight...
...Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized the piece with one leg holding up the piano." In 1938, a man of 75, with a huge red mustache and playful wit,* he boasted that he could still lift a 500-lb. weight or take care of a burglar by jujitsu. Some times he sparred a few rounds with Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr. But since then, U.S. audiences have had few opportunities to watch his flying fingers...
...take no more than ?75 with them. But Britain's vigilant Treasury, worrying over the possibility of a serious flight of British capital, has known that many were systematically evading restrictions. A favorite dodge was for British clients well known in continental hotels to run up huge accounts, for everything from hired cars to silk lingerie, then leave bills for future payment when currency restrictions are lifted. The more daring arranged for bills to be paid in Britain through agents or affiliated hotels...
...inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...