Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other countries have instituted 'tourist money' and 'tourist privileges' while France has offered a premium to French tourist agencies to get tourists to travel in other countries!" cried M. Gaston-Gérard. "Our railway travel costs nearly twice as much as in Great Britain. The price of gasoline in France is prohibitive and tourists no longer bring their cars. While other countries make tourists welcome we start taxing them as soon as they disembark...
Other Deputies took up the chorus until new Premier Leon Blum's Cabinet finally had to make rebuttal. To Deputy Gaston-Gérard's specific, constructive proposal that a cheapened 'tourist franc' be introduced, the Cabinet returned a flat "non" merely promised to spend a little more "pour encourager le tourisme...
Europe's champion tourist-flouters have consistently been Spaniards, whether or not they are having a Revolution. While Frenchmen assume that of course a foreigner is lucky to be in France at any price, Spaniards haughtily consider the tourist a fool for not staying at home. Greatest Spanish feat along this line was to build at stupendous cost in the days of King Alfonso XIII the finest network of concrete roads outside the U. S. and then omit to spend the few additional millions on advertising which would have made them teem with tourist cars. His Majesty personally...
...every corner of the land, biggest delegations coming from the Pacific Coast and nearby Ohio towns. Straight to headquarters at the Hotel Cleveland they went to plank down $2 each for credentials and badges, check their luggage, then set off to look for cheap rooms in boarding houses and tourist camps...
...place was to be found on no map, never had a post office, a church, or an incorporated government. Fifty years ago much of Hell burned down. Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen. Twelve years ago a real-estate firm acquired Hell, turned it into a tourist resort under the name Hi-Land Lake...