Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush has left the islands' hotelkeepers, restaurateurs and developers in a slightly dazed state of euphoria. In 1950 some 32,000 tourists visited Nassau; in 1962 there were 438,000. In the same period, visitors to Jamaica jumped from about 74,000 to 223,000. The Virgin Islands' share rose from 15,000 in 1949 to 300,000 last year, Puerto Rico's from 65,000 to about 500,000. Looking to the future, Caribbean developers note with gratification that the average age of the winterized tourist is decreasing. Only five years ago, most tourists were...
...proposed parking restrictions would prohibit all stopping during rush hours. The lane next to the curb can be restricted to buses and cars about to make right turns. "Where bus lane regulations are properly enforced," claims Rudolph, "both buses and traffic move faster...
...strike was a minor boon. U.S. steelmakers got rush orders for rolled sheet steel from Stateside customers they had previously lost to foreign competitors. But the overall damage to the economy was so great that President Kennedy warned that "the point of public toleration of this situation has been passed...
...Eternal Feminine. With that, the historic meeting ended and everyone departed, leaving the Mona Lisa with Secret Service men and a pair of Marine guards. Next day the gallery doors opened to a rush of citizens eager to see the great painting. Soon, from Winston-Salem, N.C., came 36 art lovers who had chartered a plane to Washington and had a representation of the Mona Lisa painted on the fuselage. In Memphis and French Camp, Miss., in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in New Orleans and New London, Conn., other people made plans for pilgrimages...
...cashed in when refugees from the Japanese invasion of China flocked to Hong Kong to change their Chinese folding money for gold. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Hang Seng deftly resettled in unoccupied Macao; it moved back to Hong Kong right after the war. then profited from another rush for gold as the Communists swept down into central China from their northern redoubt. But when the Reds finally took over the entire mainland, the gold market lost much of its luster and Hang Seng looked elsewhere...