Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imports from the U. S. are exceeding exports by an estimated $280,000,000 for 1940 - more than twice as much as in 1939. To settle the balance she will have some $200,000,000 of newly mined gold. By the new import bans, by taxes and by increased tourist trade, Canada hopes to make up the difference without touching her ace in the hole: $800,000,000 of U.S. securities and bank balances...
Today Salida has recovered. Its 3,000 lost citizens have been replaced. Gasoline sales (good tourist index) are up $5,000 a month over last year. Salidans are very fond of W. B., whom they call "Cap." They have tried for three years to tack a $50 raise to his $150-a-month salary, but he says the C. of C. budget can't stand it. On his salary the Foshays live as well as anyone in town...
...woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank. The Governor looked into the matter, offered a home for the aged horse at the Executive Mansion. Vowed he: "I love horses and everything connected with wild life. We'll never shoot him, I promise. Don't let the horse down...
...automobile finance man named Guy Bett from Spearfish, S. D. saw Meier's players in Sioux Falls, S. D. He got to know Meier, persuaded him to settle in Spearfish. It was a small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...
...ancient pomp stalked across Europe last week. Formalities and trappings moved up & down the continent. Adolf Hitler, the most grandiose tourist of all time, took a trip...