Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leeward Islands (pop. 131,600) grow sugar and sea-island cotton, are dominated by Antigua (pronounced An-tee-ga), tourist capital of the smaller islands...
...TOURIST SPENDING will top last year's record $1.9 billion. American Express reports 660,000 Americans will visit Europe alone-10% more than in 1957-and hotel bookings are running as much as 50% ahead. Paris expects 420,000 dollar-laden American visitors, Brussels 400,000 (thanks to world's fair), Rome 313,300, London 300,000, Amsterdam and Madrid 210,000 each...
Menshikov courted the U.S. loyal opposition by dining with Adlai Stevenson and giving him some tourist tips for his coming trip to the U.S.S.R.-"I will give you my assurance that you will be welcome everywhere." He began to touch bases on Capitol Hill, calling one by one upon Democrats Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mike Mansfield, Sam Rayburn, Republicans William F. Knowland and Joe Martin, even dropping in one day last week to see Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres, who had written to ask if it would be all right to show some G.O.P. ladies around the Soviet...
...tell the world who they were, as they launched a week of revolutionary sabotage right in President Fulgencio Batista's front yard (see HEMISPHERE). No sooner had they hidden the racing ace than they were bragging to the newspapers: If President Batista wanted to hustle up the tourist trade with a big sports-car race next day, he would do it without Argentina's defending champion...
...Belasco), it tells what an Italian thinks an American would feel if he went ranching with a Japanese girl. Most of the time, this confusion is compounded by the staging. In the words of an old Far East hand, Cornelius V. Starr, Butterfly productions usually present "a kind of tourist Yokohama, or half New York Chinatown...