Word: oakcrest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Johnson roadside restaurant. Mikoyan breakfasted at the counter (tomato juice, toast, marmalade, coffee), and, as the Soviet Union's chief dispenser of consumer goods, studied with fascination a popcorn maker, gum and cigarette vending machines. At Perryville, Md., the cars stopped at the pink stucco Oakcrest Motel. Through an interpreter Mikoyan braced the astonished owner: Did he make a profit? ("That's what we're in business for.") Why did the units have two doors? ("One's a storm door.") Did his family help? ("Just my wife and I.") Did he "have servants, cleaners...
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