Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach, in many a haven of the sane which boasted none of their expensive fantasies, life was simply transplanted for a while from Brooklyn and The Bronx, from the stores, the shops, the offices, the farms, the homes of Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri. It was life in rooming houses, tourist camps, family apartments, hotels rated for thrifty folk who could walk, drive or ride in public busses to public beaches, do their fishing from bridges and public boats, their loafing in public parks. They were folk who went to church or sang Rock of Ages in their hotel lobbies...
There were reports that Carol and Magda had received offers of asylum from Cuba, where it was figured he and Magda would be tourist drawing cards, and from Germany. Herr Hitler was said to suggest that Carol and his Jewish mistress reside not in the Reich proper but in Belgium or Holland. Meanwhile much of Carol's fortune is already banked in Manhattan, and most friends of the couple expect them to turn up sooner or later in its cafe society...
...four months ago in the pentitentiary, accused of complicity in last May's Trotsky assault. Meanwhile many of Mexico's lesser and younger painters, secure in Government jobs under the Leftist-controlled Ministry of Education, took to turning out uninspired political cartoons and pictorial ads for the tourist trade...
Ernie Pyle went to London to cover World War II as a tourist, to write about it as he used to write about the summer wind that blows across the prairies, about folks in Guayaquil, El Paso, Kalamazoo. He had been there just four days last week when Nazi bombers turned the city into a lake of fire-and overnight turned Tourist Pyle into a war correspondent...
...highways converging on Mexico City (to be built largely with U. S. defense funds). With the $100,000,000 (more than last year's Mexican budget) the syndicate made specific proposals to develop almost every phase of Mexican life: industry, agriculture, railroads, mining, natural gas, hydraulic power, tourist business, amusements, canning, fishing, manufacture of paper matches. In return for this Good Neighborliness, they would not go begging. Taxes in Mexico are generally lower than in the U. S., return on investment generally higher...