Word: lubbock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World's Biggest. It was by equally shrewd deals that Connie Hilton had become the world's biggest hotelman. His 13 hotels in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico-ranging from a small hotel in Lubbock, Texas to Manhattan's famed Waldorf-Astoria-have an estimated worth of $125 million and a replacement value of $175 million. He employs 11,250 people, and likes to boast that in his 12,500 rooms he "could sleep in a different bed every night for 40 years...
...points to his books in answer. Still remembering his collapse in the depression, Hilton has cut the total debt on his hotels from $32,806,000 in 1946 to $21,308,252 (not including the Waldorf), now owes nothing on the Stevens, the Mayflower or the Hilton Hotels in Lubbock and Albuquerque. He thinks he is as depression proof as any business...
...about it in the Army, Communism sounded wonderful. He had a friend in the 32nd Infantry Division who convinced him that "to be a Communist was the highest honor in the world, for the Communists represent the future of mankind." So, in 1946, when he got back home to Lubbock, Tex., Wendell Addington joined the party. At about the same time, he also became a student at the University of Texas...
...Trick. In Lubbock, Tex., after searchers spent 24 hours vainly dragging a lake for drowned Roosevelt Bailey's body, Negro Leroy Cooper offered to "conjure it up with the 'hat method.' " He tossed the dead man's hat into the water, where it drifted 50 feet, then sank like a rock directly on the body...
...Hilton string, excluding the Stevens, Plaza, Roosevelt and Town House: the Hilton hotels in El Paso, Lubbock, Plainview, Longview and Abilene, Tex.; the Hilton in Albuquerque, N. Mex.; the Long Beach, Calif. Hilton; the Dayton Biltmore in Ohio; the Rosslyn in Los Angeles, and the Palacio Hilton in Chihuahua, Mexico...