Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transocean airlanes, must approve the deal. So must President Truman. The merger is likely to be fought, not only by T.W.A., but by the American Export (steamship) Lines, Inc. American Export started American Overseas in 1937 to buck Pan Am, which was cutting into the line's Mediterranean tourist traffic. As American Export still has a 20% interest in American Overseas, it can wage a strong fight against the merger. American Export's Vice President John Slater has already resigned as chairman of American Overseas to clear his decks for action...
...tourist traffic to Havana...
Whatever Habaneros wanted-rest, fun, comfort, or bargain shopping-Miami had. A combination of inflated prices in Cuba plus fast, cheap air service had launched a boom in northbound tourist travel; Havana, long celebrated as a tourist spot in its own right, since last spring has sent some 50,000 tourists to Florida...
...other such towns were already being planned, native industries had been developed, unemployment was down 25%. As tourist bait, the government had started building broad avenues and pavilions for next year's International Exposition at Port-au-Prince, and a new law required businessmen in the. capital's downtown district to install glass show windows and hang out electric signs...
...hours later, in San Antonio, the President attended the First Baptist Church. Then, like any other tourist, he dropped a penny in San Antonio's wishing well and visited the Alamo. There he told a crowd that his one ambition is to "see a peaceful happy world-if that can't be accomplished, there is nothing else worth while...