Word: ralston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps, but few of the Hyatt's conventional clientele of tourists and Japanese businessmen seem to mind. "A few months ago, when Humble Pie was here, two gray-haired ladies from Omaha were staying in the hotel," recalls Night Desk Clerk Jim Ralston. "They took naps in the afternoon so they could sit up at night and watch the circus. They just sat, chattered and poked each other in the ribs in amazement." Between the circus and the onlookers, the Hyatt is enjoying an 82% occupancy rate, 17% higher than the national hotel average. (Rates: from $21.50 per room...
...that might help in such a plan, "providing the economic course was feasible." Gerrity said that he was opposed to creating economic disturbances, but later organized, according to the testimony, at least two meetings with representatives of such companies as Anaconda, Kennecott Copper, Bank of America, Pfizer Inc. and Ralston Purina. The other companies were not willing to go along with such adventurism...
...country-store business into a serious and well-financed industry. In the past, an enterprising farmer or a ski bum whose legs were growing old would dip into his savings and put up a rope tow on a nearby hill. Today large corporations are cashing in on snow business. Ralston Purina has bought a 62% interest in Keystone, Colo. Subsidiaries of LTV, the conglomerate, own the land, lodges and lifts at Steamboat Springs, Colo. Abroad, some of the world's most famous wealth-that of the Aga Khan, the French Rothschilds, Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos-is invested...
...Chicago Board of Trade, the world's largest commodity exchange, is a reliable indicator of future food prices, housewives might have to spend more at the grocery store next year for such basic items as bread, flour and meat. Grain dealers and agribusiness giants such as Ralston Purina and Quaker Oats sell and buy future contracts on the exchange-and each transaction really amounts to a bet on what commodities will actually sell for in one to nine months. Since November, the 124-year-old exchange's volume record and many of its price records have been broken...
...razzing, Tiriac stalked over to the stands, threatened to emasculate Van Alen and called his startled wife a bitch. When Smith shook hands with Tiriac after their match, he told the Rumanian: "I've lost a lot of respect for you in the last three days." Said Ralston, summing up the U.S. reaction to the tawdry affair: "I still can't believe...