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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mobley," Hilton recalls, "wasn't exactly a hotel-it was sort of a flophouse. We considered it a bad day when we didn't have a three-time turnover on the beds. It was a bad night when I had a bed of my own." But the flophouse made $3,000 the first month and Hilton decided "to freckle Texas with Hilton hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...small hotel in Lubbock, Texas to Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria-have an estimated worth of $125 million and a replacement value of $175 million. He employs 11,250 people, and likes to boast that in his 12,500 rooms he "could sleep in a different bed every night for 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Bush, the only undergraduate in the trio in concentrating in English and intends to begin his study abroad next year, Brademas, who lived in Adams House while attending college, could not be reached for comment last night. Steiner, who received his B.A. from the University of College, is going graduate work in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3 Win Rhodes Awards, Will Go to Oxford | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...anonymous gift of approximately $5,00 in memory of William DuBose Sheldon, LL.B. '88, who died in 1943 as a result of Naval service in the Pacific has been received by the Las School, Dean Griswold announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $5000 Presented To Law School in Honor of Ex-Grad | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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