Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squeaky Burwell, 37, decided to start an airline specializing in all-expense vacation tours. He raised more than $400,000-some of it from the Du Pont family-and, with eight surplus DC-4s and DC-3s, Resort Airlines, Inc. was under...
Collateral. Resort put out such tours as a $91.25 eight-day all-expense trip (New York to Lake Placid), and $785 for a 16-day tour through the West. Soon Resort was flying to Canada, the West Indies and Central America under temporary permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...three years, Resort grossed $400,000 annually but dipped in the red because it spent $150,000 on lawyers and research, trying to win a permanent, scheduled certificate from CAB. Lined up against Burwell were 14 big airlines...
...tumult-creating Catskill resort entertainer who clowns around the clock to keep hotel guests amused...
Both Emperor and people enjoy the new freedom. Hirohito chafes at remaining restrictions. At Unzen, Kyushu's beautiful mountain resort, he spotted an odd type of moss growth in a pond. Botanist Hirohito began to wade in after it. His chamberlain tried to restrain him; it was too dangerous. But by this time Japanese photographers had jumped into the pond to take pictures of the Emperor at its edge. "If it isn't dangerous for them," protested Hirohito, "why is it dangerous for me?" Sighed the chamberlain: "If Your Majesty can find a newspaperman's armband...