Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourists discover the really spectacular scenery of the other islands: the painted-desert colors of Kauai's Waimea canyon; the vast, gaping Crater of the Sun atop Haleakala on Maui; the hissing craters and the black sand beach on Hawaii, "the big island." Overall, the islands have the raw material to lure the tourist dollar, but Hawaii's capitalists-old & new-will have to build more hotels before they can handle enough tourists to close the gap between imports and exports...
High Winds. It is the tourist Hawaii that Hawaiians have done the best job of selling. The center of this tourist world is the white sand crescent of Waikiki beach, rimmed by the big hotels. Most tourists spend their time lolling in the sun-with perhaps a duty Circuit of Honolulu's island of Oahu. They visit the mid-island pass called the Pali and gaze down with ohs and ahs from its high cliff. There King Kamehameha I in 1795 won an important victory in his campaign to unite the islands by beating the defending Oahuans and forcing...
...tourist allowances from ?50 to ?25 ($70), saving $35 million. (Continental resorts cried foul. Nearly a million Britons visited France and Switzerland last year; dozens of small hotels on the Riviera may have to close...
Much of the picture centers on Happy's "tourist mission" through Germany from the south up to Mannheim. These sequences, actually filmed in Germany, provide a vivid picture of towns and people gutted by war. The attitudes with which Germany met defeat are typified by the characters Happy encounters. There is a corrupt SS sergeant having his last fling in a sordid military brothel, an attractive girl turned to prostitution, a Prussian general who uses the noose to maintain discipline to the last. These characters, against a background of bombed out and burning buildings, give a most effective impression...
...American, T.W.A. and the nine foreign lines that fly the North Atlantic agreed on new, low-cost tourist flights (TIME, Nov. 26) between the U.S. and Europe starting May i. The fare: $270 one way between New York and London, $486 round trip (v. $711 for first-class flights), with a reduced $417 rate for the off season between Nov. 1 and March...