Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Rock jeweler pronounced it a genuine high-quality diamond, a rush of buggy-borne diggers, many of them women in ground-sweeping skirts, swarmed into Murfreesboro. Few of them found diamonds, and most of them soon went home. But ever since then, the diggings have been a steady tourist attraction...
...been valued at $85,000. How many others have been found is something of a mystery. One local rumor suggests that many are picked up but to avoid income tax are not reported. A contrary rumor holds that the field is sometimes salted with rough diamonds to stir up tourist interest. A third rumor whispers that Arkansas would be a major diamond producer if an international diamond combine had not managed somehow to block every attempt to work the deposits by large-scale mining methods...
...itch to travel, along with the urge to find all the comforts of home, is bringing on the biggest spree of hotel building the world has ever seen. Along the most traveled international tourist and business routes the local scenery these days almost always includes the glass-and-steel presence of an American-type and American-run luxury hotel. The popping of champagne corks in celebration of another gala opening almost drowns out the noise of cranes putting up another hotel on the choice site next door...
...Tourist Flood. After World War II, many small hotels sprang up in Europe, often in new spots favored by the shifting vagaries of tourists. Few grand hotels went up: they were considered a thing of the past. Some of the biggest cities of Europe-London, Paris, Rome-were underbuilt, and though the hotel service is often better than in the U.S., the furnishings are often shabby and the bills padded by extra service charges and taxes. Opening in June, the 400-room Cavalieri Hilton, stretching across Rome's highest hill, Monte Mário, will be the city...
...advancing tourist flood spills over into Greece, the Middle East and across Asia, the first postwar hotel boom is being followed by another. Hilton opens in Athens this month with a hotel overlooking (the big word in hotel-promotion nowadays) the Acropolis. Intercontinental is building near Jerusalem's Mount of Olives on the Arab side, overlooking the old city. The Egyptian government last year launched a five-year plan to build 40 hotels. Sprinting toward the 1964 Olympics, Tokyo builders have 14 new hotels in the works. New hotels are under way or planned in such once remote spots...