Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orange roofs and the Simple Simon weather vanes above them always seemed as American as, well, an 85? slice of Ho Jo's apple pie. But now the Boston-based Howard Johnson chain of restaurants and motor lodges is going British, at least in terms of ownership. Chairman Howard B. Johnson, 47, announced last week that an agreement in principle had been reached to sell the chain's 1,040 restaurants and 520 motor lodges to Imperial Group Ltd., a tobacco, food, beer and packaging conglomerate whose famous brands include Players cigarettes and Harp lager. The bundle from...
...count: 160 for a rounded scoop of chocolate chip). Eager to expand but unable to raise much cash during the Depression, Johnson in the early 1930s became a pioneer in the practice of franchising (though today the company owns some 75% of its restaurants). Later the firm plunged into motor lodges, three-quarters of which are franchised...
...newer competitors as McDonald's and Burger King. Also, their prices are as robust (a "Tendersweet Clam Plate" goes for $4.75) as their food is plain. As one old saw puts it, "Howard Johnson's ice cream comes in 28 flavors and its food in one." In motor lodges the company has fallen behind the quality standards of such major rivals as Holiday Inns and Marriott. Though the company has had record sales and profits for four years running -1978's earnings were $33.6 million on revenues of $555 million-gasoline shortages have slowed the growth markedly...
John Paul II will be protected in Boston by cordons of national guardsmen, state police, Metropolitan District Commission officers, Registry of Motor Vehicles officers, Capitol Police and Secret Service agents...
...dura soghum, going without bath water ("I lay in my sleeping bag, cleaning my toes with my toes") and how a country runs on a trickle of gasoline: "So scarce that even when I was being chauffeured in a Ministry of Trade auto, the driver turned off the motor to go downhill...