Word: ritzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...food is almost universally good. You get plenty of meat, butter, and milk, with no worries about ration books and 16 points a week. During my five-day so-journ in North Carolina I had a fried chicken meal that was literally on a par with anything the Ritz-Carlton or Locke Ober's can offer...
Last year 279 new customers (a 15% increase in accounts) hooked up to New York Steam's 52 miles of steam mains and many of them were whoppers like the Ritz-Carlton and Plaza Hotels and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. They will boost the company's gross revenues by about $3,000,000 (30%) and lift its total steam sales to a brand-new high of 13 billion lb. Last month another 34 buildings gave up begging for fuel oil and took to steam. What all this new activity will do to New York Steam...
Shouts of Caramba! were echoing in Holly wood after the "good-will" attempts of Don Ameche (el senor), Rita Hayworth (la senorita) and the brothers Ritz (los senores), until Mr. Disney stuck his diplomatic thumb into the Latin-American pic. What he pulled out was "Saludos Amigos," a light, colorful bit of entertainment for both sides of the equator. The film is not searching for any great light, but is merely the normal response of the Disney artists to what they saw and heard on their South American trip...
...Because the Navy would always have first call on oil supplies, Manhattan's tony Ritz Carlton Hotel will padlock its oil tanks, buy steam for power and heat from New York Steam Corp...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...