Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Manhattan, Montreal is a portal city, the doorway to French Canada. It has tourist attractions, too-the best French food and the gayest nightclubs (it also had the best bordellos...
...habitant's world had not been able to keep the world out. World War II brought new factories and industries to Quebec. The tourist, his eye out only for the quaint, would miss them-the huge new power plant on the Saguenay, the new plywood plant at St. Therese, the new plastic plant at Brownsburg...
...French Canadians, over one-third of Canada's population, can afford to take the long view. The best protection for their culture lies in something no tourist can miss-the swarms of children that play about the old outdoor ovens and the creaking, great-winged windmills. Quebec's birthrate, which has long outstripped the rest of Canada's, may some day make the French Canadians the majority in the Dominion. The habitant calls it the "victory in the cradle." Time, and the long winter nights, are on French Canada's side...
Married. Prince Louis II, 76, ruler of the pocket principality of Monaco, whose most valuable import is tourist money gambled at Monte Carlo; and Ghyslaine Domanget, 46, onetime French actress; in Monte Carlo...
...Swiss tourist offices stayed open 16 hours a day to sell concert tickets; Swiss railroads hurriedly scheduled special late trains to carry concertgoers back to outlying cantons. In the required five days, the opera house was sold out. Toscanini arrived from Milan with the 112-piece La Scala Orchestra for his first European concert outside Italy since the war. Lucerne heard the Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms and Debussy he had prepared for Paris and London...