Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glitter Gulch, the approach to the tourist is straightforward. The Golden Nugget, a large gambling house in the heart of the Gulch, is the richest vein in the big rock candy mountain of Las Vegas. It offers no entertainment, just a multitude of ways to gamble, from wheels of fortune and penny slots to big-time poker games in the back rooms. In Paradise (A or B), the atmosphere is more subtle: air conditioning, deckle-edged swimming pools (with extravagant poolside displays of bathing beauties), fine food at fair prices, top entertainment, well-irrigated golf courses. But all are mere...
...Warren administration inaugurated an industrial development program that caused the tropical paradise called Florida to become a figurative beehive of light manufacturing . . . [It] sponsored a tourist promotion program that brought vast multitudes of new tourists to the lush, lovely, florescent state...
BERMUDA has told British Overseas Airways Corp. to stop bringing in tourist-flight visitors direct from Britain. It thus hopes to force BOAC to add more flights from New York and boost the island's dollar trade...
...months the Itakuras dug in vain. The local villagers thought that the presence of the Itakuras was bad for tourist business, and sneered at them: "You are fools; why don't you give up?" The Itakuras...
...sent in technicians to build a new one. The Andorrans promptly slapped a fat import tax on all radio parts. The French countered by charging 1,000 francs for an exit visa for any Frenchman who wished to visit Andorra. Andorrans protested that the French were ruining their tourist trade...