Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well with his wife and seven servants at his home in the little Bavarian mountain resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Originally the Villa Strauss at Zöppritzstrasse No. 46, was a simple, comfortable country establishment. But Garmisch-Partenkirchen, scene of the 1936 winter Olympics, has recently become a tourist and winter sport centre, and the white-haired composer has had to fortify himself against snoopers. Today, the Strauss home and adjoining five acres of formal gardens are surrounded by a five-foot wall topped by an 18-inch barbed wire fence. Only entrance to the grounds is a thick...
Sirs: After our tourist bureaus spent oodles of money advertising that the map of Michigan is the Right Hand of Hospitality Extended you fellows call it the left hand palm-down, in TIME, July 4-5 article on "Electrified Thumb." Helpful, aren't you ? M. JORLING Saginaw, Mich...
Last week, Führer Hitler inaugurated Berlin's gigantic face-lifting by laying the cornerstone of a House of German Tourist Traffic in Potsdamerstrasse. At the same time work started in 15 other Berlin spots-jobs that will eventually cost an estimated 25,000,000,000 marks ($625,000,000), that will take 25 years to complete. Determined to make Germany the world's premier tourist attraction and the centre of European culture, Fuhrer Hitler declared that under his reconstruction plan the city was being rebuilt for 300 years to come, that traffic problems would be solved...
Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping...
...inclusive cost of the tour will be from $40 to $45. Unmentioned in the tourist plans was the fact that all U. S., French, British passports are stamped NOT VALID FOR SPAIN, also the unlikelihood that none-too-friendly France would permit mere tourists to cross her borders to Rightist Spain. But where France might prove stubborn on this score, friendly pro-Fascist Portugal might well prove amenable...