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Word: tourists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood bigwigs like Producer Sam Goldwyn and Actor Gary Cooper for Sun Valley's premiere, is likely to leave Ketchum profoundly bored. Because the town is too small for a cinema theatre, they are unknown. Proprietors of Ketchum's Brant Hotel and its $2-a-day tourist camp dislike their new rival, expect it to spoil their trade. Rates at Sun Valley Lodge start down from suites at $48 a day to two-cot cubicles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snow in Idaho | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...upon discovering that his wife was in love with Farmer Jim Phelps, Jay Fleener, married 20 years, arranged a divorce, bought Mrs. Fleener and Suitor Phelps a wedding license, paid for the wedding, gave them $500 for their honeymoon, provided Mr. & Mrs. Phelps work and lodging at his tourist camp when they came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Inventions | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...slide on deck, to get skiers to St. Moritz in ten days. Skiing down the side of a skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist restaurant in summer, to make the first skating pond on Fifth Avenue since the Plaza Hotel was a frog pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoor Winter | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

During Palestine's recent period of martial law, all tourist visas were stopped. In the case of neither Palestine nor India, however, have any major U. S. press services experienced difficulty providing visas for their correspondents. Says New York World-Telegram's, Reporter Ekins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep himself and his delicate little animals alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Vanishing Koala | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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