They stayed in cheap hotels.

ECONOMIST: Lillian Lux

Hotel operators might not mind spending money on marketing so much if the Caribbean were otherwise a cheap and easy place to build and run hotels.

ECONOMIST: Caribbean tourism

The business worked so well it provided a model for Bigelow Aerospace, founded in 1996: Just like his hotels, Robert Bigelow would make space stations that were cheap, efficient and available for monthly lease.

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Though the posher hotels had swimming pools, golf courses and nightclubs, this was a magnet for Jews of all classes, and many families and their friends returned to the same hotels or rooming houses year after year, until air conditioning, affluence and cheap air travel made alternatives available and brought the enchanted little world to an end.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Dallas-based Beck Ventures bought the mall on the cheap last year with plans to start redeveloping parts of it in three years and to replace it with offices, hotels, shops and apartments over the next 30 years.

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