Word: tamanaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...cooperation with the U.S. Export-Import Bank and private interests in Latin American countries, I.H.C. also has an ambitious hotel-building program underway. Scheduled to open next fall, in time for the projected Inter-American Conference of Nations, is Caracas' $7,000,000, 400-room Tamanaco. Bogotá's 400-room Tequendama and Maracaibo's 150-room Del Lago, opening later in the year, will finally give those cities first-class hotels ; and the 600-room Copan, due to be completed in 1954, will help fill the urgent need for more and better hotel accommodations in booming...