Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free transportation, shelter and an average of $35 a week. This year the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to do something about their souls as well as their bodies. With a team of 13 Latin American Baptists, marimba-playing Preacher Hernandez checked into Pecos' Lone Star Motel for a week-long Cottonpatch Crusade...
They attended three Chamber of Commerce dinners and a Kiwanis lunch, spent a night at the Kozy Korner Motel in Humboldt, played the jukebox, window-shopped, chewed gum, tried "Tummy Buster" and "Idiot's Delight" sundaes at the Milky Way Dairy in Oskaloosa, "the middle of the Middle West...
...small for the traffic (maximum thus far: 22 inmates, mostly overnight drunks). So far the town has attracted only transient prostitutes. "A couple of weeks back, two good-looking women drove into town in a big Cadillac," reported Police Chief Leo Trudeau. "They had one price for the motel and one for the use of the Cadillac, but they stayed on just long enough to do a fast business, and moved on before we got to them." Busiest of the boom enterprises is a broker's office (a branch of a Toronto firm), where residents have begun dab bling...
SHERATON CORP. will be the first big U.S. hotel chain to move in on the booming motel business. To its 30 hotels, Sheraton will add a $2,225,000 luxury motel near the Tarrytown exit of the New York State Thruway, some 25 miles north of the New York City line. To be called the Tarrytown Sheraton Inn, the new motel will have 156 rooms, a restaurant, bar and a drive-in registration desk...
...fashion industry is now busy turning out garments to keep up with the fast modern pace-dresses that are as at home in the front seat of a station wagon as in the back seat of a Rolls, as comfortable in the vestibule of a motel as in the lobby of the Waldorf, as fitting for work in the office as for cocktails and dinner with the boss. Most of all, they must be practical. Sports clothes must swing as easily on the laundry line as on the golf course, and evening clothes must be designed as much for tossing...