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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snores; can we get separate rooms?" Finding a Field. Some of the most successful agencies have carved out their own special little piece of the travel market and concentrated on it. Among the fastest growers are the nationality agencies, usually run by first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants who have saved for decades to make the trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Merchants of Fun | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...this year is running 30 camera tours-in Japan, South America and elsewhere-with live models and expert photographer-guides. One agency set up a religious tour of Israel, complete with kosher food, tossed in a surprising fringe benefit: a special audience with Pope John XXIII on the way back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Merchants of Fun | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...cities, he worked harder and more ruthlessly to increase profits for Crane and solidify his power. Evans shifted about Crane's operations, began plans to get into the production of valves for use in oilfields. While Crane's stock was rising, the company offered to buy shares back from stockholders, got close to 800,000 of the 2,273,224 outstanding shares by early July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Tough Boss | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...doomed from the first to failure by Author Sitwell's indifference to the search, the hero finds himself back home. Was he really on a Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Way to Nowhere | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...German patrols mopped up. Two more attempts failed; he had one desperate but exhilarating moment when he wheeled his bicycle through a crowd of German troops that had "the stale, panicky smell of troops on the run." Finally, he made it by canoe through the labyrinthine Biesbosch marshes and back to what he calls "this most personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloody Market Garden | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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