Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serve the new salts and their sagebrush cousins, marinas have blossomed into a big business. Like the motel boom, the number of U.S. marinas has grown from a mere handful before World War II to more than 10,000 anchorages of all kinds doing a $500 million annual business. Yet they cannot begin to meet the yachtsmen's demand. Estimates are that the U.S. already needs 10,000 more marinas with room for 2,000,000 boats, and is falling farther behind every year. In the New York area alone, 300,000 boat-owning yachtsmen scramble for space...
Concerning your April 1 article on highway signs: 9,408 Maryland motorists may be against billboards qua billboards, but they are glad to see an "eat" sign when hungry, and a "motel" sign when tired. Most studies show distractions keep motorists alert on long drives, and parkways without signs are the deadliest...
...Washingtonians, from Cabinet officers to Government clerks, the orange-roofed Hot Shoppes are as well known as the Washington Monument. Last week Hot Shoppe Owner J. Willard Marriott branched out with another sort of monument-one of the world's largest motels. Sprawling along seven Potomac-side acres beside busy U.S. 1, the $5,000,000 motel has 370 wall-to-wall carpeted rooms equipped with TV and hifi, plus a swimming pool for adults, a wading pool for children. Guests can drive up to Marriott's Motor Hotel, select accommodations from a look at 3-D Kodachrome...
...Shoppes. The chain kept expanding because the food was good, and swiftly served in scrupulously clean surroundings. Now Hot Shoppes, Inc. have 66 restaurants in eleven states and the District of Columbia, last year fed over 40 million customers, grossed upwards of $29 million. Last week, with his motel already booking reservations into May and June, Marriott had sites for three more motels on the East Coast...
...assistant managing editor of the New Orleans States and one of our string correspondents when he came to the staff in 1951 as Denver bureau chief. Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks...