Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in February's American Magazine, "a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder. Hence the terse order that goes out daily to law-enforcement agencies when criminals are on the loose: 'KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON TOURIST CAMPS...
This blast echoed at the convention of United Motor Courts (Eastern Division) and the eastern branch of International Motor Court Association last week at Miami Beach.* The 350 convening tourist-camp owners agreed to free their industry from rookery-seeking Romeos. As for the rest of Detective Hoover's indictment, one U. M. C. official snorted: "So it is 'Hoover again.' A little more...
...alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...
With the onset of World War II and the promise of a whopping diversion of tourist business to Florida, Mr. Washburn last fall took a full-page ad in the New York Times, offered Hog Island to anyone with a tropical yearning and $150,000 to spare. The ad brought scores of queries, a few prospective buyers, including an Italian from Manhattan who wanted to found a new Roman Empire...
...prepare for it by getting drunk every night." At present he is angling for a commercial radio tie-up to let the U. S. know how the honeymooners are doing daily. After the honeymoon season, the city of Tampa is interested in taking over the island for a tourist playground. One unromantic newspaper photographer visited Honeymoon Isle last week and wryly observed: "Not a thing on the island but huts, soldier crabs and pelicans. It's going to be tough if they don't know how to play cards...