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Autos. General Motors wound up its eight-day showing of its new models in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (TIME, Jan. 24) with a total attendance of 320,000. The new models had gone over so well that one Detroit "new-used" car dealer said he had been offered $853 above the list price for a 1949 Chevrolet...
...days after the British evacuated Palestine to the rattle of Jewish and Arab guns, Chaim Weizmann received a message in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. The Provisional Government of Israel had elected him its first President...
...nights this week, trains of snorting vans lumbered up to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and disgorged rich cargoes from Detroit. Inside the hotel, swarms of workmen sweated under floodlights to turn the Grand Ballroom into the fanciest automobile showroom on earth. On a wide stage, they set up an endless chain conveyor and a revolving platform for the new models; across the room, they reared a 25-ft. pylon above a cluster of jewel-bright auto engines...
More than a few of the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be. But Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer would tell them; he was due to give a speech which President Truman had read and approved...
...topflight admen who gathered last week at the annual eastern conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies were not as cocky as usual. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel the worried talk was all of television. Griped one adman: "The host of mysticism built up around television has top management scared stiff...