Word: motels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
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...
...hopes of making a cushion: freedom from U.S. income tax, cost-of-living differentials and salaries about 25% above stateside rates for equivalent jobs are the lures. A surprising number intend to stay for a couple of contracts (two years each), save up enough to buy a motel back home. But the limited consolations of loneliness are a deterrent to savings accounts: some pretty rugged poker and crap games spring up in the bachelor camps. For men with families-there are now 3,400 wives and children with Aramco and its associated U.S. contractors-the air-conditioned houses, the tennis...
...golfer ever since his high-school days, Mike needed the financial backing of a Durham, N.C. furniture man when he first struck out on the circuit. He was winning too little to take care of his motel bills. Now he figures he has a chance to win any tournament he enters-even the Masters. And he is paying his own way. He has long since proved that he can use his clubs to whack out a good bit more than the price of room and board...