Word: motel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening last week, a black Chrysler Imperial sedan rolled up in front of a motel in Decatur, Ill. The driver, a middle-size, friendly sort of fellow, and his wife checked in quietly, but a reporter was soon on their trail. Even the cost of their dinner ($1.72 for two) and the size of the tip (35?) were carefully noted. Harry Truman granted that he and Bess were not having much luck traveling "incognito...
...though he recommended approval of the loan and resigned from RFC on the day the loan was granted (to become a Lustron executive). Young and his wife (who wore the Truman Administration's original mink coat when she was a White House stenographer) now operate a swank Florida motel known to its clientele as "the Royal Pastel Mink Auto Court...
...Basin (pop. 250). From far & near came hundreds of bent, gnarled and crippled men & women, mostly victims of some variety of arthritis, all pathetically seeking a magical cure. Many thought they were benefited. Undoubtedly benefited were the owners of two abandoned silver mines, hotel and motel keepers, beanery proprietors and taxi drivers. Boulder and Basin had not seen the like since the bonanza days of the 1890s...
Home of Crime. By 1939, the U.S. motel business had a $37-million-a-year gross and a rough reputation. During the 30s, such gangsters as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd leased entire motels, used them as hideouts; many a motor-court operator reckoned the difference between profit & loss in the "two-hour-tourist" or "hot-pillow" trade. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover blasted the entire industry: "The tourist camp is today a new home of crime in America, a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder...
...respectable motor-court operators banded together in such organizations as the United Motor Courts and the American Motor Hotel Association, quickly cleaned up the trade. Now, the good motels bar local Romeos, offer special features to attract not only overnight travelers, but vacationing families who prefer informal, inexpensive living to dressing up in a hotel. Max Mosko's Hi-Way Motel in Denver has a fenced-in playground for children and a day nursery with a free doll-lending service. Many Florida motels greet customers with a free glass of orange juice; in Dallas, the Town House gives guests...