Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From South America, Cuba and most sections of the U. S. airplanes big and little last week converged on Miami, Fla., until nearly 500 were grouped around the tourist city's newly enlarged Municipal Airport for the 10th annual All-American Air Maneuvers: four days of races, aerobatics and conferences. Mostly privately owned and flown, more than 200 of the planes present were Taylor "Cubs," Aeronca and Taylorcraft; 40 others were righting and bombing machines from the U. S. Marine Base at Quantico, Va. In a speech before the meet, Contest Chairman Carl Fromhagen enthusiastically declared...
Object of Magda de Fontanges' visit to the U. S. was to capitalize on her misbehavior by appearing as a show girl at New York's French Casino cabaret. When the Normandie, on which she had saved part of her first-class expense money by traveling tourist, docked in New York, immigration officials refused to let her disembark. Next day, Magda de Fontanges was whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same...
...Bremen docked in Manhattan. On board were specially-ordered supplies of red carnations, English tea, barreled drinking water, Westphalian hams, steaks, cutlets, liver paste, and 1,049 passengers, some of whom had transferred at the last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...
...William Powell) analyzes himself for the benefit of audience and Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy): "I'll be quite frank with you. I suppose I'm what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung...
...Cubans are shot down by gunmen as they leave the cafe, thus making their comrades suspect that Morgan had betrayed the trio. Morgan returns to his tourist fishing parties, only to have his fishing tackle lost overboard by a tourist, who at cruise-end welches on making the loss good. The tackle cost $360, must be replaced if Morgan is to continue as a party-boatman. The rest of the story relates the more & more dangerous expedients he is driven...