Related topics from Britannicahotel building that provides lodging, meals, and other services to the traveling public on a commercial basis. A motel performs the same functions as a hotel but in a format designed for travelers using ...
Architecture and Civil Engineering Times Square in New York City was again a topic of controversy, thanks to a proposal for a 47-story hotel for the Disney Co. designed by the Miami firm Arquitectonica. In cartoon fashion, the tower ...
Parker, Dorothy American short-story writer and poet, known for her witty remarks.Stern, Martin, Jr. American architect (b. April 9, 1917, New York, N.Y.-d. July 28, 2001, Los Angeles, Calif.), designed a number of landmark casino hotels in Las Vegas, Nev., as well as three brightly coloured Ships ...
Statler, Ellsworth Milton U.S. hotel owner, founder of the Statler chain.Tisch, Preston Robert American financier and philanthropist (b. April 29, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y.-d. Nov. 15, 2005, New York, N.Y.), owned, with his brother, the Loews Hotel chain and, with the Mara family, the New York ...
Anastasia, Albert major American gangster.Trump, Donald J. American real-estate developer who amassed vast hotel, casino, and other real-estate properties, in the New York City area and around the world.Hilton, Conrad American businessman and founder of one of the world's largest hotel organizations.Baum, Vicki Austrian-born American novelist whose Menschen im Hotel (1929; "People at the Hotel"; Eng. trans. Grand Hotel) became a best-seller and was adapted as a successful play (1930), an Academy ...
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