Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special stalls were the guests of honor. At Winter Haven's famed Cypress Gardens, about 6.000 people paid $2 apiece for entertainment on a somewhat simpler scale−water skiing, swimming and diving exhibitions. Said Owner Richard Pope, who as head of the state advertising commission is Florida tourism's top drumbeater: "Just look at all those $2 bills walking around...
...Calamity. The change in tourism, however, is not the biggest change in Florida. In fact, the most notable thing about Florida in 1954 is that tourism is no longer the beginning and end of the state's economy. In other times, a slow-starting tourist season might have meant a statewide calamity. Now it means no such thing...
...only has tourism been spread out over the year, so that there is a mere 10% difference between winter and summer volume; the state's economy itself has changed. Tourism accounts for one-third of the state's business and the value of manufactured products ($1.3 billion in 1952) is half again as big. With new industries springing up from one end of the state to the other, the population of Florida has grown faster in the last three years (up 30% to 3,600,000) than that of any other eastern state. Since the war. non-farm...
Successful Failure. Tourism may be Haiti's greatest single asset in the years just ahead. Holiday travelers, especially the kind who hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming...
...hopefuls who clustered around the President's palace in the hope that, by chance or default, they might be tapped to form a government. He was a second-echelon minister-Economic Affairs-in the Queuille cabinet; in four successive cabinets he was Minister of Public Works, Transport and Tourism...