Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power Elite. In Hartford, Conn., the State Labor Commissioner Renato Ricciuti ruled that Motel Owner Alex Crawford must pay his night clerk the state minimum wage of 75? an hour, in spite of Crawford's explanation that the clerk, who works a 93-hour week for 54? an hour, is an executive...
Hart Brake Motel (Homer and Jethro; RCA Victor). The funnymen from the hills take off from Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel in a red-hot tin lizzie. "My room it was so small,'' one of them croaks, that "evertime I tried to smile my teeth would touch the wall." No more vulgar than the prototype...
MILLION-DOLLAR MOTELS near Pittsburgh and Williamsburg, Va. have proved so successful for Knott Hotels Corp. that the chain will build (at a total cost of more than $3,000,000) and operate three more near Washington, Pittsburgh and Groton, Conn. Washington motel, first to be built, will have 125 air-conditioned rooms with private balconies, a restaurant, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with cabanas...
Rain on the Roof. In Fresno, Calif., three boys hurled stones at the Fresno Hacienda Motel from a highway overpass, were swiftly taken into custody by members of the State Juvenile Officers Association attending a convention in the motel...
...Bakersfield eight years ago. Determined to create a community that would match its underground wealth, Richfield sold 201 model homes at cost to employees, put up a handsome shopping center and leased it to independent merchants. The company also provided a $75,000 community hall, a $250,000 motel-restaurant, a $20,000 playground, plus land for two new churches and a $1,500,000 high school. Says a Richfield executive: "Most of these families never owned a home before. Now they are settling down to grow with the valley...