Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your French Canadian Vacation is waiting for you, now- or when Victory is won." The All-Year Club of Southern California frankly...
...trousers by using the running board and a towel for the ironing board; alto gether saved $375. Then he worked his way across the U.S. to his native North west, stopped at the Nippon Yusen Kaisha office in Seattle and paid $195 for a round-trip ticket to Yokohama, tourist class...
...This is the city of snobs. Here you find the exquisitely groomed office boy from one of our very oldest families, snubbing the shabby Cabinet minister, from the prairie, or some awful place. . . . This is the city with a new kind of tourist trade, divided equally of one part dollar-a-year men and ten parts two-dollars-a-day stenographers. . . . She is the wartime stenographer who breakfasts on 'coke,' skips lunch, and dines on a 10? sandwich. She shares a room with as many as three other girls and they live in such squalor that, if similar...
...Bahamas' tourist trade; most defense installations are finished. After months of unemployment, a minimum of 30? an hour-the prevailing rate-in the Florida vegetable fields looked mighty good to Bahamians. Florida planters, worrying about getting beans, tomatoes and sugar cane harvested, were equally delighted. Ever since last fall they had clamored for permission to import foreign labor. The War Manpower Commission turned them down, fearing a flood of cheap labor, finally okayed the plan. In the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor did all he could to help...
Britain's lucid, 76-year-old Sir Bernard Pares said last week that American ideas on Russia are 20 years out of date. At the end of a ten-week lecture tour, he spoke with more authority than does the usual British tourist: he has studied Russian history for nearly half a century, visited Russia more than a score of times, taught in two English universities, packed many tomes with meaty detail...