Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Residents of Eureka Springs (pop.1,668), of two minds about the project, are hopeful that the statue will stimulate the local tourist trade, but are uneasy about Smith's presence in their community. Says Mrs. Smith: "It is a pleasure for me to point out that Eureka Springs is not a concentration center for eccentric kooks and nuts...
...strike heaped up confusion and distress, humor and heartbreak, unevenly. New York lost an estimated $500,000 a day in tourist trade, retail sales and entertainment spending, while in Chicago, 50,000 conventiongoers jammed hotel space. Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard pilots airlifted some 4,000 strike-stranded servicemen to their destinations, including 1,500 en route to or from Viet Nam. Yet some commercial flights went out as much as a quarter empty because overloaded phone lines deluded would-be passengers into thinking a trip to the airport would be useless...
...company was in the throes of serious losses. In return for more common stock, Hughes came forward with a major loan ($10 million) to keep TWA flying. In time, he hired a gifted administrator, Ralph Damon, who got the airline back into the black by pushing low-cost tourist fares. In 1956, Damon died of pneumonia, and TWA's fortunes plunged into five more years of turbulence. By now, Hughes had virtually vanished from sight, dealing with TWA's officers by phone, often in the dead of night, or through lawyers, or sometimes not at all. Carter Burgess...
...Dmitry Poliansky put Aeroflot on the North American mainland. He signed an agreement under which the Russian airline and Air Canada will jointly operate twice-weekly service between Montreal and Moscow by way of Copenhagen. The flight will take nine hours, cost $570 for a 21-day round-trip tourist ticket or $1,170 first class...
...Lynda sandwiched in a picnic, slept late in the mornings and had her hair coiffed at one of Madrid's smart salons. On her public forays, she had no bravo's for the ever-present photographers and overprotective Secret Service escorts. Anxious to see Spain as a tourist instead of a celebrity, she finally had a heart-to-heart chat with Robin. Three of the Secret Service men were peeled off, and it was decided to keep her plans a little more guarded from the press, particularly the photographers, whom Senorita L.B.J. dismissed one night with the plea...