Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famous for the work he has done in converting Key West, Florida, termed by the "Current March of Time" as "Brain Trust Island," from a poverty stricken town into an enterprising tourist center, Stone originally intended to become a professor of organic chemistry...
...chief hitch after combining its hair and washing it behind the ears," said Stone, who had absolute power over the city for four years, was in getting the inhabitants to become tourist conscious and in making them aware of the historical interest which the place has for the sight-seer...
...hours before her return-trip sailing. It smoldered for three hours, did an estimated $10,000 damage to the cabin lounge. Aboard were 75 passengers, some of whom rushed on deck in night clothes. The line then announced that first-class passengers would have to go tourist or transfer to other vessels, and the Berengaria prepared to sail with tourist and third class passengers only...
...over Nazi activities in Austria (see p. 19) the bantamweight maestro got in a smart jab to his old enemy's musical midriff. Salzburg is in Austria, and since Maestro Toscanini has been conducting there (since 1934) in its annual summer festival, Salzburg has taken much of the tourist cake from, its Bavarian rival, Bayreuth. Last week Toscanini cabled from Manhattan that he would have nothing further to do with the Salzburg Festival. Chapfallen Salzburg officials urged him to reconsider. No, said the maestro's uncompromising silence...
...half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past the Wesley Oaks to the Christ Church rectory...