1. Around the turn of the century Conrad Hilton rented out rooms in his family's home.
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1. Around the turn of the century Conrad Hilton rented out rooms in his family's home.
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3. Barron Hilton maintained a no-partnership policy for the company's casino-hotels.
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4. In 1970, Barron Hilton engineered the $112 million purchase that would generate the largest percentage of the company's revenues within a decade: two casino-hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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6. In 1938, Hilton bought his first hotel outside of Texas, the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco.
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7. Conrad Hilton buys Statler Hotel for $111 million dollars, which at the time was the largest real estate deal ever.
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8. Conrad Hilton appears on the cover of Time magazine, the first hotelier to achieve such recognition.
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9. Conrad Hilton gave up active management of the company in 1966 when his son Barron was named president.
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12. In 1912, New Mexico became a state and Hilton was elected to the state legislature as a Republican.
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