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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. decided to build the Caribe, it sent out letters to seven U.S. hotel owners asking them if they were interested in coming to Puerto Rico. Only Connie Hilton had the graciousness to start off his reply in Spanish: "Mi estimado amigo." His esteemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Too Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

White Elephant. In Chicago, Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Though each of Hilton's hotels is different from the others, together they form a rich pattern of 20th Century U.S. hotel life. In the U.S., more than any other country, the big hotel has become a city in itself. There, says Hilton, "you could live out a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

His vast store of nervous energy makes it impossible for him to sit still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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