Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England, a through highway means a bigger and more satisfied tourist trade. For the average Boston-New York commuter, the college student and the business man, the link means a quicker, safer trip. The State of Massachusetts has an excellent opportunity to make a painless contribution to its own and to its visitors' welfare...
...inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
Foote's actual career as a spy began in Switzerland in October 1938. On his first assignment, he was sent to Munich where he set himself up as an amiable tourist of independent means; his pay and expense money came to $300 (U.S.) a month. This mission consisted largely in lunching at Hitler's favorite restaurant and reporting on the Fuhrer's habits...
Last week the new owner of the moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...
...expand existing Puerto Rican industries. To help the rum industry recapture part of its $14 million wartime U.S. market (when U.S. drinkers had to buy rum to get a bottle of Scotch), the island government will spend $750,000 this year on advertising and promotion. Then there is the tourist business, which the government hopes will bring the island an annual income of $16 million by 1952. With tourists in mind, PRIDC is putting $5,000,000 into San Juan's new Caribe Hilton Hotel (300 rooms...