Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tourism is ballooning, with the season scarcely at hand; in 1959's first four months, Alaskan clocked 3,419 vehicles and 8,418 people pouring through...
...left out as a snowbound Kansas farm. Even after the casinos reopened (see below), war-scared tourists were so scarce that each big Havana hotel offered 40 to 50 free rooms to Miami travel agents as a come-on. Most of the $60 million annual revenue from tourism will be lost. The peaceful islands do not hesitate to capitalize on the trouble. "While other countries in the Caribbean undergo riot and revolution," beamed the Jamaica Tourist Board last week, "Jamaica remains a haven of happiness in a troubled world...
...professedly democratic rebel movement gave elections a low priority-18 months from now, or perhaps two years. Urrutia vowed that rampant prostitution, a symbol of Batista corruption, would be wiped out. When warned that this might hurt tourism, he answered that Cuba will attract U.S. visitors "by more decent means-sports, for instance." Castro said that the gambling casinos would be reopened, for tourists only, and "the profits will go to the people." The ban on liquor sales stayed in effect until week's end, but reformist zeal could not entirely suppress the Cuban love of life. As tension...
Puerto Rico's warm sun (362 days yearly; 78° mean temperature, only 6° variation between summer and winter) alone had not melted the hotelmen; they had studied Puerto Rico's tourist prospects. In eleven years tourism has jumped sixfold to become Puerto Rico's third industry, with a $31 million annual volume -more than the tourist trade of all the South American countries combined...
...Larger Than Life." The shrinking of the Atlantic is only one of many reasons for expanding British interest in American affairs. With an increase in tourism, Britons are returning from the U.S. with newly whetted appetites for news. Many British papers have added pages and elected to fill them with U.S. news. And through the austerity of postwar England shines the image of the fabulous States. "America has a glamour to British readers greater than any foreign country." says Correspondent Brittenden. "It offers a picture that seems slightly larger than life...