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Ever since the Depression caught U.S. hotelmen overexpanded, they have been chary of risking money on new hotels. In 20 years, only three big new hotels have gone up: Cincinnati's Terrace Plaza, Washington's Statler, Houston's Shamrock...
...Manhattan, big (6 ft.), drawling Arthur F. Douglas, president of the Hotels Statler Co., Inc., thought it was time for a change; the nation's growth had made the caution of hotelmen shortsighted. Last week he signed construction contracts for a new $20 million Statler in downtown Los Angeles. It will be the biggest new U.S. hotel since the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Statler, ninth in the chain, will have an outdoor swimming pool, hotel shops on three levels; each of its 1,275 air-conditioned rooms will have an outside exposure and a built-in television set. Travelers who dislike the nuisance of parking their cars and entering a lobby in rumpled clothes, won't have to. They will be able to drive into a 475-car underground garage, register as they alight and take a special elevator direct to their floor...
Some rival Los Angeles hotelmen shook their heads at Douglas' "big gamble." They thought that his heart-of-downtown location was a "decaying" area, and his building costs were much too high (about $12,500 a room v. $9,000 for Washington's Hotel Statler built in 1943). But Douglas was counting on big convention trade, extra business from a big office building which will adjoin the hotel, and most of all on the nomadic U.S. people, whose travel has greatly increased. Said Douglas: "Our rates will be on a par with those of other leading Los Angeles...
Inspector. As he rose before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at lunch next day in Washington's Statler Hotel, he was the spokesman for the free world. "Our task," said he, "is to present the truth to the millions of people who are uninformed or misinformed or unconvinced . . . We must make ourselves known as we really are-not as Communist propaganda pictures...