Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsewhere throughout Western Europe there are many signs of physical recovery evident even to the business tourist. The Netherlands is certainly on its way back, and a token of Dutch enterprise is the really remarkable new television set I saw at Philips of Eindhoven...
...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...prewar German shipping tycoon, he had wedged his way into the Atlantic traffic with simple, serviceable ships, the lowest tourist rates of any line, and an inexpensive elevator system for carrying automobiles uncrated. A Jew, the Nazis jailed him and confiscated his ships. Released, he went to the U.S., built up a new Bernstein line that ran from New York to Antwerp and the Dutch ports. His ships were sunk during the war. Now, at 58, he is at it again...
...Quiet days, no important events." This horoscope for Zurich, published by the weekly tourist bulletin, was only half right. The days were quiet enough for the 350 stargazers of the International Astronomers' Union, who met last week for the first time since 1938. But after eight days, some of their conclusions had become important mileposts in man's continuing search to find out more about his universe...
...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...