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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hilton will pay for his investment with two-thirds of his yearly profits. The rest of what he makes, an estimated $300,000 a year, will belong to Hilton tax free.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Young Conrad, the second of eight children, went to private schools (Albuquerque's Goss Military Institute and New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell), and to college for two years (New Mexico School of Mines). When father Hilton was wiped out by the panic of 1907, he started taking roomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

"Put Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Things to Come. There are also a few other clouds ahead. Tourist courts and motels are already giving Hilton and other hotelmen hard competition. "We have to keep making our hotels better," says Connie Hilton. "Rooms will have to be larger and they'll have to be soundproofed . . . They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

While bossing the Berlin airlift, Major General William H. Tunner -often thought of what the ideal military cargo plane should be like. Last week, at an "Air Cargo Day" meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Statler, he described it. It should have four engines and be able to carry 50...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Two for Good Measure | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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