Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Arched Abomination. Before the year was out, the elusive monster of Loch Ness had been sighted again & again. In one four-week stretch at the height of the tourist season, it was seen 20 times. Its pictures even appeared somewhat foggily in the Illustrated London News...
Editor Garrison devotes one of his articles to examining the origins of Spain's state Catholicism. As he entered the country, the state tourist department handed him a pamphlet "containing a defense and glorification of the Spanish Inquisition" and Garrison quotes it at length to show that the compulsory conversion enforced by the Inquisition was undertaken as much for political as "religious" reasons...
Black Ink. The merger would certainly be good for both lines, since Delta's big load of tourist traffic to Florida comes in the winter, and Northeast has its tourist load in the summer. Said Northeast's Gardner: "If the merger goes through, there'll be a way to make the horses work all the time instead of leaving them in the stable to eat up the profits." Furthermore, Delta, which lost eight of its top men in a 1947 crasb, would have its management bolstered; the new combination would be bossed by Woolman with the help...
...White House breakfast one day in 1944, Franklin Roosevelt and Pan American Airways' Juan Terry Trippe put their heads together over Latin America's impending dollar shortages. One way to solve them, said Roosevelt, was to in crease tourist traffic from the U.S. by supplying better hotels for travelers. Since any increase in travelers would mean a boost for Pan Am as well, Juan Trippe got right to work...
Formosa's 160,000 remaining aborigines are happier, too. They do little work. Some of them sublimate their head-hunting desires by taking monkey skulls; others make a play for the tourist trade with performances of native dances. And now that the harsh days of the Japanese Guard Line are gone, the aborigines are free to wander down to Taipei for an occasional glimpse of civilization...