Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in 1939 disgruntled bondholders got Jumbo a new trainer, Joseph Patterson Binns. Instead of writing Jumbo off as too big to work, Joey Binns gave it jobs for which it was best suited. He installed a production-line system in the enormous laundry, saved $25,000 a year. He mechanized the housekeeping, closed off whole floors in rotation, kept a perpetual inventory of the rooms. This set-up cut the cleaning bill per room 22? a day, which for the Stevens meant $120,000 a year. But the average occupancy was still only 44%. So Binns spent...
With 1,385 hotels and 143,000 rooms to offer, Chicago became the white herd's favorite watering hole. Its Jumbo was the Stevens, "World's Largest Hotel." Built in 1927, the Stevens has 3,000 rooms (one man could spend eight years in it without twice sleeping in the same room), 1,500 employes, 40 miles of carpets. Overbuilt and overcapitalized (cost: $28,000,000) by its promoters, Ernest J. and Raymond W. Stevens, the Stevens began to totter in the first tremors of 1929. Panicky, the Stevens brothers began sluicing funds from their father...
Prime Minister Hussein Sirry Pasha of Egypt went out last week, escorted by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore and Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson to see how cleanly, how terribly the British & Imperial Army of the Nile, plus the R. N. and the R. A. F., had swept his country's desert fringe clear of Italians. But a man who awaited Graziani's further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their...
Head of the expedition was Major General Richard Nugent O'Connor, a Scot with an Irish name, who won a silver medal from the Italians for valor on the Piave Italian front in 1917. Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, Commander of the forces in Egypt, had planned this whole adventure on his flower-crowded island in the Nile at Cairo with General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief of the Army of the Middle East, who blessed it with a ringing Order of the Day: ". . . In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy. We are more highly...
Rogstad made up for his loss to an Engineer last week by downing his Jumbo opposition once at the beginning of the second period, and again at the start of the third...