Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarming even to tourist-hardened Capitol police looked the men from Harlan's hills-tall, muscular, hip-swinging deputy sheriffs in broad-brimmed black hats and uncomfortable store clothes, scrawny miners in patches. A search revealed several with empty pistol holsters slung under their armpits. But the real bosses of Harlan County were not in evidence. Only about one-third of its coal is mined by local owners. The rest, including "captive" mines whose corporate owners consume their entire output, belongs to outside capital. Biggest captive-mine owner is U. S. Steel Corp., others include Ford (whose mines...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...
...enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this...
...glory of Genova is in the past when with Venice she was the leading port and trading city. Now for the tourist she stands as a convenient breaking place in the journey to Florence and southern Italy. Yet is it not for the past that most of us come to Europe at all? The chief contemporary contribution which will interest the tourist a thousand years hence will be found principally in America...
...tourists, few minutes before, had joked gaily at the prospect of seeing a public execution of Chinese drug peddlers, had had to be restrained by police from taking photographs because "China must not be ashamed." But the six executions turned many a tourist pale & sick. With drawn faces they climbed into their cars, drove...