Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gendarmes, flying squads, villagers and passing tourists, milling around the Drummond camp, had obliterated all possible clues. Footprint experts, fingerprint experts and bloodhounds were unable to pick up a lead, though Parisian headlines feared what the unsolved murder might do to French tourism. It seemed likely that the only record of the Drummond family's last hours would remain Elizabeth's entry in her diary of the evening before: "The moon is high and shining. We are camping. I have just done something I always wanted to do. All alone I went swimming in the river-like...
...turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about $57,000 a year on its little...
...bear!"). With the book, which cost $7,500, Wyoming hopes to make tourism, now the state's third biggest industry, still bigger...
...Service Agency of the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Tourism...
...police figure they have to make an example of the ten in order to hold back the tourism being spread by a gang of more than 4000 sharp-shooters--including hundreds of gun-molls...