Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil expects a 40% boost in tourism for the comfortably cool "winter season" in July, thanks to tourist-fare cut rates introduced by air and sea lines. Hotel and restaurant prices have risen 20% in the past year, but are still only about half the U.S. level...
...immovable object called a country, the result is sometimes a travel book. The tourists who consistently write the best travel books are those literate and indefatigable nomads, the British. Two lively new British travelogues, one thinly disguised as a novel, cover such comparatively avant-garde areas of modern tourism as Turkey and the isles of Greece...
...tourists, but finally the police were called. Searching the rooms, the police found all in perfect order: baggage seemingly untouched, an unfinished letter on Mrs. Hallock's desk. In short order the case bounced onto front pages around the U.S. Alarmed at the potential damage to its booming tourism, Acapulco called in the Federal Security Police. As day after day passed with no word, Mrs. Hallock's distraught sister, Mrs. Edith Hoffman, arrived from New York. She promptly revealed that the missing couple's good friend in Acapulco had been Luis Fenton...
...Jamaica, which has more than half the land area and population of the new nation-4,411 sq. mi., 1,500,000 people. The island is pulling itself up by a pair of bootstraps labeled tourism and bauxite. But it still has more than 100,000 unemployed. Says Socialist Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley, 63, the half-Irish, half-Negro dean of West Indian statesmen: Jamaica "is one of the problem areas of the world...
Rations & Noses. All told, Western Europe has only enough oil on hand for five weeks. To conserve it, Great Britain has already started rationing oil by cutting consumer supplies 10% at the distributor level; France began rationing gasoline by restricting all pleasure travel and tourism. Other European nations are also feeling the pinch...