Word: motel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS. Almost half of about 900 civil rights demonstrations staged since last May have revolved around the right of the Negro to eat in any place that he can afford, to sleep in any hotel or motel, to play in any park, or to enjoy the facilities
...young man who signs up for a job with an oil company nowadays may find himself involved in the business of making toothbrushes, running a motel, selling houses or dredging for diamonds. Oil companies got their start by striking oil, but they are now striking out into a wide-ranging diversification program that often takes them far from the oilfields. Says Vice President S. G. Walters of Socony-Mobil's Mobil Centers division: "We'll find money to in vest in any proposal that shows promise of a substantial return...
...companies now realize that their thousands of service stations offer ideal retail locations for one-stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell...
Koufax finally seems to have out-pitched his own luck. The Dodgers are paying him $30,000. He owns a bulging stock portfolio, part of an FM radio station and a motel. His $30,000 San Fernando Valley home is equipped with a well-stocked library (Aldous Huxley, Thomas Wolfe), stereo cabinet (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky) and bar. Bachelor Koufax tools around Hollywood in a shiny gold Oldsmobile convertible with an assortment of beauties at his side, picks up extra change by appearing on-stage in nightclubs, and playing bit roles...
...Shamrock Hilton, but is only 30. Many are betting on fast-rising Bob Caverly, but there is also talk that Hilton might go outside the company to tap someone like able Howard Johnson the younger, who runs his father's coast-to-coast-franchise restaurant and motel business. Merger talks between the two companies, however, were broken off-at least for the time being-a fortnight...