Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remembering the carefree days when tourism earned them more money from overseas than even the silk textile business, the Japanese had looked forward eagerly to the well-advertised arrival of the Caronia, for its staterooms were filled with the most expensive collection of dollar-heavy souvenir hunters ever to hit the Ginza. In accommodations that cost from $2,750 (for a B-deck cabin with two bunks) to $29,000 (for a main deck suite), they had come from the U.S. (500 of them in all) to see the Pacific in style over a leisurely 99 days, picking up memories...
...conspiring with Interior Secretary Albert Fall to defraud the Government, later served 6½ months in jail for hiring private detectives to shadow his jurors and for refusing to answer questions before a Senate committee. In his career, high-living Harry Sinclair was the first man to wear silk underwear on the Cherokee strip, donated brass bands to a dozen Midwest towns, and (to find out which had more money) challenged Colonel Jacob Ruppert to a contest at throwing dollars into the Atlantic Ocean...
...Saigon (and you can, for the cuisine is French) while ignoring the few at the end of the line who are laying their lives on the line. In the dance halls, the local girls sit in a row, dressed in colored tunics slit high and trousers that look like silk pajamas. Their painted faces advertise that they exist for joyless pleasures. In Saigon officers and officials take siestas. All these things are true. But still, Indo-China is not a very pleasant place to be in, even in the soft and untouched places, for who can be completely indifferent...
...spring-cushioned seats and enjoy the smooth, gliding ride, only a few oldtimers sighed for the cumbersome elegance of the tortugas in their heyday. Then the streetcars were used for fashionable funerals, and the wife of Dictator Porfirio Díaz had her own private streetcar, furnished with silk curtains, revolving osier seats, spittoons and magazine racks...
...southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes even moves his face. The only trouble is that there's "a philosophical piano player" (Victor Sen Yung) in the house quite a bit of the time...