Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight years under Raab, the national income doubled, gold and foreign-exchange reserves rose to $672 million. The tourist industry, Austria's most important, is currently sluicing in wealth at an annual rate of $239 million. Vienna, no longer a divided city, shook off its Third Man atmosphere of shabby spies and furtive black-marketeers, is once again one of Europe's gayest capitals...
...dwellings, a pace that jolted one once-sleepy county - Brevard-into becoming the fastest-growing U.S. county. New industries are pouring in (881 new plants last year alone), and the state's income from manufacturing, farming and construction finally equals the income from its weather-dependent tourist and service industries. Beyond Florida's tawdry nightclubs, neon fagades and kidney-shaped swimming pools lies a new and sustaining domain of factories, fresh communities and solid citizens...
Sportswear to Spinach. Though the state's fast growth has relieved Florida of its worry about the tourist exodus, it has brought a tangle of new problems. For one. the need for highways is pressing. The state has built 500 miles of four-lane roads in the past five years, but that does not begin to fill the need. Says newly elected Governor Farris Bryant: "We are a score of years and a billion dollars behind in highway construction." As fast as industry is coming into Florida, it still is not coming fast enough to supply the new jobs...
...contrary. Four TV cameras will play over the courtroom, making videotapes of all the proceedings. The television concession has been given to a New York company. Special seats are reserved for government guests; the world press has 474 seats and a battery of mechanical aids. The national tourist corporation even has places for the tourists who will come to watch...
Your article on enticing tourists to this country was immediately sent to my mother in Denmark, who this summer will be making her sixth contribution to the tourist-gap cause. She is a devotee of the drugstore, which to her is a most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate...