Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business. Although few big city hotels have been built in the U.S. in the last eleven years, motels and motor courts have mushroomed from 13,521 in 1939 to more than 30,000 in 1950. Said the American Automobile Association: "Everybody who has a pile of bricks and a vacant lot puts up a motel." Often the business consists only of a man & wife who have invested their savings in a few cabins, built up a comfortable living within a few years. The average income of a U.S. motel operator last year was $14,862; all motels grossed...
...unused basement storeroom was the site chosen for the religious services. Eliot House was selected because it had vacant space where the planned squash courts were not completed. The other Houses all have squash or other activities using their basements...
...brother act that began in 1903, when 16-year-old Sam Warner paid $150 for a movie projector and a print of The Great Train Robbery. The brothers made so much money exhibiting the film that in two years they were able to buy a vacant store in New Castle, Pa., to use as a nickelodeon. Brother Jack sang songs while Sam ran the projection machine; Al drummed up publicity; Harry was the booking agent...
Last week, Britain's ailing (duodenal ulcer) Prime Minister left his hospital bed only to face another, deeply worrisome jigsaw puzzle: how to patch up the torn fabric of his Labor Party. He appointed new ministers (see box) to fill the posts left vacant by the rebellious resignations of Nye Bevan and Harold Wilson (TIME, April 30) and the death of Ernest Bevin. Then he tried to rally his followers against Left-Winger Bevan...
...first Monday since the opening of spring practice, the football field behind the boards on Soldiers Field was vacant yesterday, as a large number of varsity players took the afternoon off to donate blood to the Phillips Brooks House drive...