Word: vacant
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...pleasures that a U.S. tourist enjoys only in his own country is the ever-increasing number of modern, luxurious motels. In 1951, the American Automobile Association remarked that anyone who has a "pile of bricks and a vacant lot" puts up a motel. Today, competition for the tourist dollar is even more acute, the product more enticing. How tempting and comfortable some of these motels can be is shown in our four-page color spread; what the industry is like is told in The Boom That Travelers Built, in BUSINESS...
Almost four months after his nomination to the Supreme Court, John Marshall Harlan is still spending most of his afternoons before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, instead of filling the vacant ninth place in the Court building. He has been detained, unfortunately, by questioning that daily grows more absurd and insidious...
...Stanley L. Brown, 43, was lured away from the James B. Beam Distilling Co. to become president of Park & Tilford Distillers Corp. He succeeds Arthur D. Schulte, who continues as chief executive officer in his new job as board chairman, vacant since the death (in 1949) of his father, Cigar-Store-Chain Founder David A. Schulte. A native New Yorker, Brown started selling shoes at 18, studied journalism in New York University night school, tried reporting for New York's Daily Mirror, went back to selling shoes, later became general merchandise manager for Chicago's Goldblatt Brothers department...
...Canadian Senate has no fewer than 20 vacancies for its lifetime, $10,000-a-year jobs. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was expected to appoint new Senators for the reopening of Parliament last month. But for a reason never made public, the vacant seats were not filled. Last week the secret leaked out: one of St. Laurent's proposed appointments was blocked by the Roman Catholic Church, and he postponed, at least temporarily, his plan for Senate reform...
When the directorship of an important art museum falls vacant, the directors of every U.S. museum perk up. In the game musical chairs that follows, even the lowliest may find a plushier seat. Last summer Perry Rathbone, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, was appointed to fill the directorship of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (vacated by the death of George Edgell...