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...Paris by swift truck and chartered plane go 65,000 copies daily-80,000 when the tourists swarm. In the last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
...other islands, who head for the city as agricultural mechanization cuts down the labor force (e.g., the sugar industry now employs 17,000 workers as compared with 55,000 in 1932). A system of state parks and development of small industry on the outer islands will help promote new tourism and new residents, with enough money to pay the tariff...
...just hold their own. ¶ Big, long-term purchases reflecting confidence in the future, such as automobiles and heavy machinery, are off 20% to 50%. ¶ U.S. investment, which rose $25 million (to a total of $850 million) even in the war year of 1958, has virtually stopped. ¶ Tourism, such a bright prospect that three big new hotels opened for the 1957-58 season, is nearly dead, with 60% to 80% of the rooms empty. The largest hotels are running up to $100,000 a month in the red; Havana-Miami airlines traffic...
...Paris last week, after five days of Intourist tourism, Baptist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could read on the faces of the people a great spiritual hunger, and the sort of insecurity that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Communism, but we love the Russian people...
Capitalist Profit. Once the tourist reaches the Soviet Union, the hand that guides him is Intourist, a state monopoly whose official title is the All-Union Stock Company for Foreign Tourism. Founded in 1929, Intourist had shrunk to a shadow at the time of Stalin's death, grew like a weed in the tourist thaw that followed. Though all its stock is owned by the government, Intourist still uses the forms of a capitalist corporation, holds annual stockholders' meetings attended by representatives of Soviet ministries. It also turns over to the U.S.S.R. Bank of Foreign Trade a healthy...