Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Phoenix and Tucson (pop. 182,500) reach out into the open spaces with acres of factories, airports, suburbs, housing developments and tourist havens, the open spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed...
Boom & Build. The tourist trade grew faster than factories. At least 6,000,000 people now tour Arizona each year, inspire gaudier and gaudier strips of motels and roadside restaurants on roads leading out of Tucson and Phoenix. The unchallenged center of tourist trade has risen just across the irrigation ditch from the Paradise Valley area, where the early-bird millionaires first set the style for desert life and leisure. Its name: Scottsdale, which as recently as 1949 was a sleepy farm town of 1,700. It has now become the shopping center for a population of about...
...Hawaii by diversifying into non-sugar lines, as some companies have already done. Another possibility is real estate: though they occupy only 6% of Hawaii's total land area, the sugar plantations have a much bigger share of the flat, cleared land ideal for factory sites, housing and tourist developments. Some 38% of sugar land is leased, and already planters report that lessors are more and more reluctant to tie it up in agriculture when the most attractive long green waving in Hawaii is increasingly not sugar cane but the developer's dollar...
...EAST TOURIST BOOM will lure 210,000 tourists to Japan this year (v. 152,000 last year), and 60% of them will be from U.S. Since jet service began to Japan, Pan American Airways' business on route has jumped 50%. This week airline will step up West Coast to Japan jet service from four to seven round trips a week...
...nights gambling, his days wooing nouveau riche heiresses. Milli drifts moodily through her days, hears people talking about a man named (she thinks) Albert Hitler, beats her head against the prison walls of faded gentility, and makes vague, hopelessly unrealistic plans to work in a hotel or a tourist agency. Rescue finally comes when an aunt who has married a U.S. millionaire sweeps into Vienna, vaguely trying to conquer her own past, and sweeps Milli off to New York...