Word: minis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mini mis. Last week the case of Lilienthal and AEC became a matter for the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee's full attention. In the Senate's big caucus room, Chairman Brien McMahon, puffing on a cigar, ceremoniously took command...
...Hilton built his first "mini-max" (maximum hospitality, minimum cost) hotel, and started out to become a Western legend. In Texas horse-trader fashion, he bought and sold more than two dozen hotels, naming most of them after himself, finally built the chain that has brought him an estimated fortune of $28,000,000 and made him one of the ranking men in the U.S. hotel business.* As a hotelman, Hilton has relied heavily on four attributes: 1) tremendous energy (he can get by with four hours' sleep); 2) a shrewd ability to analyze people and pick good employes...
...legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored father of two grown-up daughters. Maria Aurora ("Baby") and Zenaida ("Mini"), and a small son. Manuel Jr. ("Nonong"). Mrs. Quezon, dignified and portly, keeps matron...
Mostly she writes about her three children and Clem, her husband, who is scarcely more than a head poked out the bathroom door to answer questions opportunely ; yet a pervasive presence in Mrs. Mini ver's life, like the sun. "Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch...