Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's biggest tourist year set new records. Long-term visitors (48 hours or more) from the U.S. had rolled across the border in August in more than 400,000 automobiles, up 30% from August 1946. Province after province reported bulging tourist figures; only Saskatchewan, short of tourist attractions and long on bad " roads, was the exception. Squawked a Detroiter to the Regina Leader-Post: "Your roads are horrible ; absolutely terrible. We even got stuck...
Australia had neither the housing nor the shipping facilities to handle more than a few hundred. But her Minister for Immigration and Information, Arthur Calwell, was busy in the U.S. drumming up trade. His biggest inducement: payment by Australia of 40% of an emigrant's passage (tourist class...
...uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...
Meanwhile, there were signs that the Media might yet run into heavy weather of a different sort. On her first trip, she had carried almost a full complement of passengers but only 887 tons of freight -13% of her capacity. And with the peak of the summer tourist season past, there was a noticeable drop in eastbound passengers. For the first time since the war, there were vacant bookings even on the Europe-bound Queens...
...leave and then will just have to put stamps on them and mail them when I'm on my holiday." That would give him more time to "really see Canada. ... I did this last year when I went to Quebec and it worked out just dandy." The tourist-conscious Board of Trade obliged...