Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan, Franklin Roosevelt explained last week, was: 1) the U.S. and the other American nations will rehabilitate Spanish art treasures and famous buildings; 2) the U.S. and the others will encourage postwar tourist trade to Spain from the 21 American republics. The price: Dictator Francisco Franco will remain neutral, i.e., not attack Gibraltar as an open ally of the Axis (TIME...
...Duke's idea. The 67,000 citizens of his island kingdom were getting along O.K. until the war knocked the spots out of the lush tourist business (main support of the population), marine parasites crippled the sponge trade, blue-grey flies ruined the citrus trees. One by one the islanders lost their jobs. There was depression. So the Duke set up the Economic Investigation Committee, set out after bigger & better industry for his Bahamas...
...Malaya the Japs set up monopolies in salt, tobacco, matches. To get more money, they sold chances on a million-yen lottery to the Malays. At Singapore, a college of colonial administration was established for aspiring Jap administrators. Also opened in Singapore was a tourist bureau extolling the beauties of Nippon...
Time and the Town is her rambling, sentimental, intermittently colorful account of this famed tourist haven, artists' colony and birthplace of the Provincetown Players. But most of all, it is the story of Provincetown's permanent population...
...gotten to think of you as one of us." Author Vorse was tickled silly. A hectic career as a pinko labor reporter and foreign correspondent has left her with little that is so permanently satisfying as her adopted home port, Provincetown-the fishing-&-tourist village at the end of Cape...