Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were only 30 rooms around town picking up an odd tourist dollar. This year's estimate: 32,000 visitors, nearly 1,000 rooms, and a tourist trade of $2,400,000. The burros are still there and the bands play on. But the old footbridge has given way to a broad concrete span...
...blossoming between Quebec and the France of Charles de Gaulle's politique de grandeur. French Renaults, Peugeots and Citroëns fill the Montreal streets; French wines, Vichy water and apéritifs are all the rage. Air France and Trans-Canada Air Lines enjoy a booming tourist trade: TCA ran 600 charters to Europe this year...
...swimming pools and sports centers used in the 1955 Pan American Games, and displayed a model of the 110,000-seat stadium under construction. They promised to charge athletes only $2.80 a day for room and board? lower than Detroit-and crowds would be no problem for their tourist-oriented city. And what about the 7,400-ft. altitude? Snorted a Bulgarian delegate: "Horses never have trouble getting acclimatized down there. And if horses can stand it, so can the humans...
...last week from Jamaica and Puerto Rico were closely checked for signs of a disease that most of them never heard of: dengue (pronounced deng-gay) fever. The disease hit the Caribbean in July. Ever since, officials with an anxious eye on the coming winter's tourist trade (normally 20,000 to 25,000 visitors a month for Puerto Rico alone) have been waiting hopefully for the epidemics to die out. They are still waiting. New cases last week brought Jamaica's 1963 total close to 500, while Puerto Rico passed the 15,000 mark and was still...
...ownership of TWA in trust. When Hughes began sniping at the new administration, Tillinghast tied him into legal knots with an antitrust suit. He arranged additional financing for more jets, flew the line constantly to check on service, and shifted TWA's image from that of a tourist's to a businessman's airline...