Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such official facts as that the League of Militant Godless (i. e., atheists) has fallen in membership from 5,000,000 to 2,000,000; that the Commissariat of Education has just closed five big anti-religious museums which until a few weeks ago were one of the major tourist sights of the Soviet Union; and that the Komsomols or Young Communist Leagues have now abandoned their anti-religious propaganda among Russian youths. All this must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since J. Stalin, although he was a theological student at the Orthodox Seminary...
Intourist simply does not use the direct railway line from Dnepropetrovsk to Ros-tov-on-Don. Instead an Intourist tourist must go all the way back up to Kharkov and then down to Rostov. The Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans...
Much as customs inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports...
...sugar his bitter purge, Critic Buck last week addressed these good words to Arizonans: "Arizona has the justifiable reputation of having a very desirable climate and because of this reputation enjoys a most favorable tourist trade. No one wishes to do anything which would interfere with this trade. The safest and surest method . . . would seem to lie in emphasizing the fact (when that stage of development has been reached when one can honestly do so) that Arizona is carrying on a thoroughly modern, well-balanced program for health protection and promotion insuring the health and happiness of its people...
...ballyhoo Cuba's political serenity, boom Havana tourist trade, Cuba's idealistic President Miguel Mariano Gomez y Arias last autumn hit on the idea of a Christmas Sports Festival. Main events on a week-long schedule were to be a New Year's Day football game between two crack U. S. college teams; an amateur boxing tournament; jai-alai matches; an international basketball tournament; the baseball championship of Cuba. As a special opening attraction, Cuban Sports Commissioner Carlos L. Henriquez, one-time Columbia footballer, dug up the ancient stunt of a race between a human...