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Word: muskoka (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until his eyes failed. He got a job as a roustabout, pushing barrels around the basement of the old Oriental Hotel at Manhattan Beach, and then he decided on the hotel business as a career. By the time he was 27, he was managing his first hotel (the Royal Muskoka Hotel, Muskoka Lakes, Canada). Before long he had hotel interests in half a dozen big cities and was part owner of Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria. By 1929, harddriving, handsome Innkeeper Boomer thought he knew just what people wanted in a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: He Knew What They Wanted | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

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