Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pier last week lay the 6,100-ton Radnik, a former U.S. troopship now owned by the Yugoslav Government. Her holds were being filled with Canadian machinery, including $330,000 worth of mining equipment, $182,000 worth of diesel engines and fishing gear. Her human cargo was waiting in tourist camps at suburban La Salle. They were 500 Yugoslavs who have had enough of Canada and want to return to their native land. Of an estimated 21,000 Yugoslavs in the Dominion, about 1,500 have signed up to go home...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...
...Billy stopped running for the first time and contemplated his million-dollar money belt. He was a famous showman. His nightclub, the Diamond Horseshoe (started in 1938), was grossing $1,250,000 a year, and ranked with Grant's Tomb and the Staten Island ferry as a Manhattan tourist attraction. Billy says of this period: "The race is over, I told myself. Stop running. You've won. Let 'em stick the wreath around your neck and snap the pictures. go on back to the barn and take it easy...
...dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery for mills in the Nepal lowlands. They also talked about a project for a high-class tourist trade for tiger hunting...
...even as decisive a will as the Benefactor's must reckon with the U.S., and Trujillo has done it. He has built one of the Hemisphere's finest hotels in his capital to convince U.S. visitors that he "runs the country like a U.S. corporation." Many a tourist has gone away impressed. But U.S. hemispheric policy, which has tolerated Trujillo despite its icy hostility to dictators, is in a state of flux. When it takes more certain form, Trujillo may hear unpleasant tidings...