Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist advertising budget, and the unexpended balance of Washington's quarter-million appropriation was held up. > SPAB's newest member Jesse Jones announced a 400,000-ton synthetic rubber expansion which he believed would make...
More highly specialized than either of these layers was Army Intelligence. It operated through a shoal of spies disguised as petty merchants (like Major Hara of Vigan), cafe proprietors, medicine-store operators. It was financed by the Japanese Tourist Bureau...
...America in the past have been dizzied by champagne, charmed by Latin hospitality, impressed by the fact that U.S. citizens know so little about their neighbors to the south. But last week a special House committee investigating air transportation revealed that it had learned more than was in the tourist guide books. Chairman Jack Nichols of Oklahoma told the House his committee was prepared to prove...
...easy last week to get a French colonial tourist visa on your Danish, Dutch or even German passport. The best of Vichy contacts would not get one for U.S. citizens or British subjects...
...roads will need more than 2,200 extra coaches (total U.S. supply: 37,000), plus 1,000 Pullman tourist sleepers which, minus porters and bedding, will be used as coaches. The Pennsylvania alone will handle more than 300 special trains, will detrain some 50,000 men at Manhattan, has appealed to their mothers and sweethearts not to stand around in the already crowded station. Longest haul: a three-train caravan from California's Fort Ord via Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond...