Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ORGANIZATIONS Dollars for Israel Beneath the warm smile of Israel's visiting Foreign Minister Golda Meir, some 300 U.S. Jewish leaders met in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza Hotel last week to plan a great new outpouring of American dollars for Israel. Before Feb. 28, said the Israel Bond Organization, it hoped to raise $20 million; before the end of 1957 it hoped to raise a total of $75 million designed to improve immigrant housing, speed up industrialization and "fill the gap in Israel's development budget created by the loss of other sources of economic...
Built and operated by the Tisch Hotel chain (the Traymore and Ambassador in Atlantic City, NJ.; the Belmont Plaza in Manhattan), the Americana offers such inducements as a huge, cone-shaped $300,000 terrarium in the center of the lobby (filled with orchids and rare fungi) and four restaurants with the help dressed to fit the decor, e.g., waitresses in Rose Marie operetta costumes for the Dominion of Canada Coffee House, waiters in Argentine cowboy pants for the Gaucho Steak House...
...Eden Roc, or the $14 million, 565-room Fontainebleau with its $200-a-day suites and two swimming pools which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
While a band played and an American Legion color guard clicked to attention, a flag was sent proudly aloft last week in a newly paved Florida plaza named for Betsy Ross, U.S. seamstress and upholsterer.* The ceremony marked the official opening of "Salhaven," a multimillion-dollar retirement community for Betsy Ross's latter-day followers, the Upholsterers International Union...
...book is now on sale at newsstands throughout the U.S. Copies also may be obtained by writing directly to LIFE Magazine, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, New York 20. All profits from the book (produced at cost by R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago printers for TIME and LIFE) will be donated to Hungarian relief funds...