Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kitchens, the cheap cars, the drugstores, the tourist camps, of which Hollywood gives frequent glimpses, that excite the envy or emulation that promotes discontent. Hitler was wise to discourage American films in Germany, films showing a life in a country where a people's car is a reality, not a confidence trick...
...Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho that horse racing would benefit Mexican horse breeding, Good Neighbor relations and tourist trade...
Combining actual color glimpses of South America with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American...
With the war, tourist business fell away, then was halted altogether. Catalina lay in a restricted war zone with only one customer-the U.S. Government. By August 1942, the normal summer population of 10,000 had dwindled to 1,500. Last week, 600 newly arrived Maritime Service trainees completed Catalina's wartime conversion...
...Democratic Party's James A. Farley, greatest living political tourist, first-named his way up & down the Midwest last week. He turned up in Denver "on business," dropped by Omaha on a "chance visit en route," just happened to hit St. Louis to talk to "old political and personal friends...