Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from Madrid to San Sebastian, and was nearly trampled under the influx of French tourists, who this year will number...
...shelves its first soft drink-a milk-laced beverage called Moola-Koola. One reason the soft-drink people are convinced that their boom can only grow is that the biggest group of soft-drinkers are on the verge of a population explosion: the next ten years will see an influx of 6,000,000 teen-agers into the market...
...record load of 683,000 Europe-bound passengers from May through September.* It is not just that hotels in Paris, London, Rome and Athens are jammed; even such once-obscure places as Portofino and Majorca are out of the question. This summer, Scandinavia is experiencing a big influx of those who, having already done the standard museums and churches, are ready for a fiord in their future, with smorgasbord and aquavit on the side...
...Thang Nay, or the Big Road, Route 7 has long been used by North Viet Nam's Reds to truck men and guns to the Pathet Lao (up to 400 vehicles a day), in open violation of Laos' neutrality accords. To get closeups of the latest influx, the supersonic reconnaissance craft flat-hatted in at virtually treetop level, at slowpoke speeds of perhaps 450 m.p.h., and often from the same predictable angles...
...Devizes, a sprawling, largely rural community in Wiltshire, Labor was heavily favored because of a recent influx of 4,000 industrial workers. It was widely admitted that if the Tories could win here, they would have a real chance in the fall. As it turned out, the Labor candidate, a Bristol schoolteacher, was defeated by Etonian Charles Morrison, 31, who talked welfare issues, visited old people's homes and was aided by no fewer than 14 relations, including his charming wife Sara ("I know you won't believe a word I say about him, but . . ."). More help came...