Word: netherlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his new buy, Henderson will have a hard time catching Connie Hilton. Last week in Cincinnati, for a total of $25 million, Hilton bought the eight-year-old Terrace Plaza and took a 25-year lease on the 29-story Netherland Plaza. Hilton, who plans to build an $18 million Kansas City hotel, announced last week that he will also build a $24 million Detroit hotel with 1,500 rooms and 50 penthouses, operate it for a fee on a 25-year lease for an investment group. Hilton says he has already cleared his plans with the U.S. Justice...
...years." After he left the room, somebody spoke up: "We ought to do something about this." They talked to young (35) Board Chairman Charles Scripps, who decided to give Roy a big surprise party. To Roy Howard, when he stepped into the Pavilion Caprice of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel one night last week, it was indeed a surprise...
...Army's Walter Reed Hospital, he flew home to Cincinnati and checked in at Holmes Hospital. There, one evening last week, he wrapped a blue robe around his bright yellow pajamas and dictated a speech. The next night, in the brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father's text. The words were scarcely out of young Bob's mouth before there was explosive reaction from all around the world...
...Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide to Governor General Vincent Massey. He was, he said, "a summer sports...
...leave here this afternoon, New York's restaurants will probably tempt you first. You will most likely with to get an far away from dining hall food as possible, a simple matter if you hit for the Sherry-Netherland...