Word: true
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conrad Hilton thinks such a future is fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where...
Both Reginald Bunthrone and Archibaid Grosvenor, the Fleshy and the Idyllic Poets, played by Bradley M. Walls and Richard M. Murphy fitted about the stage with true aestheticism. Walls' face was a delight to behold as it changed to meet the mood. But credit for the best single performance from a list of many excellent ones must go to Elizabeth Spencer, who was suitably padded with pillows to play Lady Jane. Her aria in the beginning of the second act-done with a bass fiddle-brought down the house...
When a squash ball is dropped from a height of 100 inches on a steel plate, it will rebound 32 inches. This is true only when the temperature is at 70 degrees Faherenheit...
Usually a trade association accomplishes little, but this has not been true of the Square merchants. In recent years the organization has been responsible for Christmas decoration, improvements in local traffic conditions, increased parking facilities, and a full-fledged publicity campaign aimed at attracting suburban buyers...
...distinctive manner of handling this, too. Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...