Word: newe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high polish on the silverware. On traffic-jammed Ponce de León Avenue stood a huge welcome sign: Bien-venidos. In the plaza, the excited chatter was all about the opening this week of Puerto Rico's finest hotel, which islanders hope will be a rich new source of revenue and prestige for their economy...
...new, ten-story Caribe Hilton stood dazzling and white on a peninsula, amid a garden of yellow hibiscus trees, breadfruit, almonds and tall waving palms. On one side of the hotel were the coral beach and the long rolling waves of the Caribbean; on the other, old San Geronimo Castle, a blue bay, pink and white houses and, in the distance, mountains...
...Good. From Los Angeles, Hilton went shopping in New York. "When I saw all those people in the streets, I didn't see how you could lose money," he says. "And I had to establish myself in New York. I could borrow money from my Texas friends to buy a small hotel, but only in New York could I get the millions I wanted to swing the deals I had in mind." The first deal looked too good to Hilton. The famed Ritz Hotel was offered to him for $700,000 and he turned it down. Said...
...Proud Past. By the time he had bought the Stevens, Hilton was convinced that he also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history, Hilton teamed up with Builder Henry Crown (TIME, Nov. 28) and signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth...
Young Conrad, the second of eight children, went to private schools (Albuquerque's Goss Military Institute and New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell), and to college for two years (New Mexico School of Mines). When father Hilton was wiped out by the panic of 1907, he started taking roomers into the family's modest adobe dwelling at $1 a day, and Connie helped him. But it wasn't what young Hilton wanted. He went into politics and, with the help of a well-organized graveyard vote ("the best people in the county"), was elected...