Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been built at one of the most scenic mountain spots, and the Chinese are even talking of skiing facilities an auto drive away from their tropical coastland...
...carries only 84 passengers first class, or no tourist v. up to 179 for the Boeing and Douglas jets. Its big advantages are speed-some 40 m.p.h. faster than the 707 and the DC-8-and what promises to be impressive economy of operation. Powered by four commercial versions of the General Electric J-jg engine that pushes the Air Force 6-58 Hustler bomber to Mach 2 speeds, the 880 has so much power that even with a full passenger load it needs only 5,800 ft. of runway for take-off (v. 8,000 ft. for bigger jets...
...town was eventually able to afford the finest altarpiece money could buy. Then came the Reformation, and the pilgrimages ceased. For centuries the great carving was all but forgotten; only a trickle of travelers took the trouble to visit it until after World War II. Last week the Creglingen tourist office proudly predicted that this year's visitors will reach at least...
...still the new ones went up (65 hotels from 1946 to 1960), and competition got steadily keener. To lure guests, many hotels have switched to the American plan, tossing in two meals for only $3 a day more. Some hotels have tried tie-ins with airlines and tourist agencies, selling blocks of rooms at cut prices. Rate cutting has become the rule; prices have slid as much as 25% in the last five years...
...competitive in price or design, but it is British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make any Englishman blush...