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...early-morning darkness on a lonely New Jersey road President George D. Strohmeyer of Child's Restaurants ("The Nation's Host") focused his eyes on a roadside sign: Maridell Inn. Restaurateur Strohmeyer and two companions made their way to the sign, yanked it down, drove on in high spirits. On a street corner in Spring Lake a patrolman found them few minutes later gazing happily at a bonfire blazing from the splinters of the sign. For their prank Funster Strohmeyer & friends divided a fine of $75 and $19.50 costs...
...four hotels into receivership, filed a personal petition in bankruptcy in Federal Court. Last week Architect-Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still had his beauteous second wife, four children, salaries as hotel manager under the receivership and as president of a solvent subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co. Hotelman Marshall had his gay pink house on Lake Michigan, his ship-cabin tap room, a handsome table that sinks through the floor and a Ming bed that holds seven people comfortably...
...during the Depression. The man who put spiced tomato juice cocktail on the market was Ernest Byfield, Chicago's most famed hotelkeeper. From his father the late Joseph Byfield he inherited the Hotel Sherman Co. (Ambassador East, Ambassador West, the Sherman, the Fort Dearborn) and its subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co., which the elder Byfield had started to can foods prepared by restaurant chefs. In 1927 while visiting John ("Yellow Cab") Hertz in Miami, Ernest Byfield liked the taste of a glass of tomato juice he was given. He immediately put his chefs at the Hotel Sherman...
Production of plain tomato juice began to soar even faster than cocktail production. In 1930 a record tomato juice pack (excluding cocktails) of 946,000 cases was sold out in eight months. Big canners like Libby, Heinz and Campbell had better equipment, distribution and financial backing than College Inn to sell juice to the masses. They can no cocktails and today four-fifths of the industry's production is unspiced juice. College Inn's product still is a quality drink, selling for 50% more than plain tomato juice. Output last year was 350,000 cases...
Flames leaped from pen to pen, scorched cattle, sheep and hogs, threatened the huge packing plants of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., sprang at the big Livestock Exchange. Up went the Dexter Pavilion, scene of many a great livestock exposition. Up went the old Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...