Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prices were shockingly high, although France had a group of "Vacation Villages" around the country in which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...
...cabins are comfortable but not opulent. There are 344 first-class cabins (top price: $930 for double bedroom, bathroom and sitting room), 178 second or cabin class ($220 to $290), and 173 third or tourist class ($200 for an outside main-deck cabin with upper & lower berths and running water, to $165 for the cheapest cabin...
...Level. As Ike said, the creed was an old one. But the man, the year and the place made it new and alive. This was not the local-boy-makes-good story. It was not the up-from-log-cabin story. Nor was Ike suggesting that all problems could be solved by the simple equations of rural Kansas. This was the story of fundamentals which had served Ike Eisenhower well -and through him, the nation. It was the creed of the man who could say "Free government is the political expression of a deeply felt religious faith...
...Part of the Onkel Tom quarter of Berlin, which got its name from a book which became as well known in Europe as in its native setting -Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his small Manhattan radio station (KDKF), first adopted the call for medical assistance: MEDICO-a signal which takes precedence over all other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island...