Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since rural budgets are inelastic, most of the women avoided hotels, packed their belongings into inexpensive boarding houses and private homes, pitched tents in tourist camps outside the city. "Towns people never have done anything like it," boasted Mrs. Alfred Watt of Canada, the Country Women's plump president. The women listened to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull once, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace twice. They deployed over the White House lawn, serenaded the President with Home on the Range, drank Mrs. Roosevelt's lemonade, showed such eagerness to shake the hand of a woman...
...time requires only about 5% more beds than usual. For Dallas 150,000 visitors would require over 55% more beds. For the past few weeks Dallas hotels have already been filled by people coming on Exposition business. To house the great influx expected, Dallas has been busy building tourist camps and tent cities on her outskirts, arranging to have Pullman cars kept on sidings for their passengers to live in, arranging a central booking bureau to which visitors can apply to rent rooms in several thousand private homes...
...brought candid remarks by millions that "she'll beat the French!" In Paris and in London, confident booking clerks assured Queen Mary passengers that, leaving Southampton on Wednesday afternoon, she would dock in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon (four days). Aboard the ship sailed scores of passengers with tourist-agency coupons commencing in Manhattan with dinner on Sunday night...
...Poland's great hope. By far Poland's biggest ships are the Batory and her sister ship the Pilsudski (TIME, Sept. 23). Both were built by Italy in Trieste's Monfalcone shipyards in exchange for $6,000,000 worth of Polish coal. The Batory has "tourist-top" rates ($176), space for 760 passengers, last week carried 266 and a crew...
Heretofore Hammerfest has been dependent entirely upon boats for transportation. Norwegian Aero Transport expects the new passenger & mail air-service to cause a step-up in tourist business. Only three years old, the company has lines around the southern coast to Oslo, last year pushed as far north as Tromso. Technical adviser is famed Pilot Bernt Balchen, who lately returned from a survey of U. S. airlines...