Word: waldorfastoria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HILTON HOTELS CORP., which already controls three Manhattan hotels (WaldorfAstoria, Plaza, Statler), will take over the Savoy-Plaza early next year. In stock swap, Hilton will give about $15 million worth of its securities for 1,000-room hotel...
...major and countless minor wonders of the world. Absolute musts were designated by -**, e.g., the Louvre, Yellowstone Park, Windsor Castle, St. Peter's, the Pyramids, the Colosseum and the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in Boston. Lesser musts rated *, e.g., the Arc de Triomphe, the Paris Ritz, the WaldorfAstoria, the Jungfrau, Harvard and Yale (but not Princeton), Broadway, and the Brooklyn Post Office. Many a hotel offered handsome bribes for recommendation, but Baedeker remained the raspberry-red incorruptible...