Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying across Europe in a commercial airliner recently, that Tourist Kern met, as fellow-passenger, Willibald Seypelt, German flier during the War. Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...
...Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, which, however, one calls "Wagons-Lits," ("Vagon-Lee"), and everyone knows to be the firm which owns all the sleeping cars on the Continent.* Last week "Wagon-Lits" absorbed "Cooks...
Admittedly the plan is one to enthrall imagination. For some time acquaintances meeting in foreign capitals have remarked that the world is after all, a small place. To contain the tourist whom travel has broadened until he is loquaciously expensive, who gives critical lectures, or pokes things derogatorily with a cane, the world is indeed too small. For him is such a trip designed. But before he and all his ilk can be bundled with the necessary changes of linen into a gargantuan rocket, the contention that so many foreign bodies in space might disrupt the delicately balanced celestial system...
...confusion of dialects clogs the channels of trade and diplomacy. The radio, moving pictures, artistic advertising, all the weapons of modernity, are weapons as well of internationalism. Whether they compensate for the colorfulness of unhygienic custom and inefficient quaintness must remain an academic question for the antiquarian and tourist...
...class fares on ships like the Leviathan, Majestic and Maurentania would increase $7 between U. S. and Continental ports. First-class fares on the President Roosevelt, the France and ships of their class will not be changed. But for second-class passage on all ships the price mounts $5. Tourist cabin charges go up slightly...