Word: mobley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mobley," Hilton recalls, "wasn't exactly a hotel-it was sort of a flophouse. We considered it a bad day when we didn't have a three-time turnover on the beds. It was a bad night when I had a bed of my own." But the flophouse made $3,000 the first month and Hilton decided "to freckle Texas with Hilton hotels...
...France opened Hilton's eyes to the world beyond New Mexico. He had sold his little bank, and in 1919 (after his father died) he set out for the oil-rich town of Cisco, Texas, looking for bigger game. Instead of a bank, Hilton bought the shaky old Mobley Hotel with $5,000 of his own money, $15,000 from friends and a $20,000 bank loan...
...apparently, did all but one of the 285 guests in the brown brick, 15-story, "fireproof" hotel. At 3:32, a switchboard light winked; a soldier in 510 wanted ice and ginger ale. Clerk Rowan sent Bellhop Bill Mobley up with it, and told the night engineer to go along for a routine building check. They had to wait in the hall about three minutes for the guest to finish his bath. They spent another three minutes in his room. When they opened the door again, the hall was ringed with fire...
...whisked off to a country party, complete with hillbilly band. Democrat Fulbright, listening to Arkansas Democrats, found that they were satisfied with Congress. But they had a few reservations about Mr. Fulbright himself, about his sudden emergence as postwar planner (TIME, June 28). Said Farm Bureau Head H. S. Mobley: "Congressman Fulbright's talkin' about the peace over there. That's all very well, but what about over here, where we can't even get our milk picked up?" Farmers wanted to know about the feed shortage, higher prices for poultry; merchants asked why canned goods...