Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of that statement the franc rallied sharply at the beginning of this week, and stocks on the Bourse bounded up. Nevertheless, devaluation of the franc is implicit in any French New Deal. French foreign trade and, politically more important, French tourist trade have suffered woefully from devotion to gold. Having taken a 79% devaluation in 1928 and endured the preceding inflation, the French people, particularly its millions of small investors, hate & fear the idea of currency tampering. Lately, however, Jean Frenchman has begun to feel the terrible grind of deflation, and a shot in the economic arm, if reasonably...
More significant to standard U. S. railroading is the development of better service on regular trains. Having long since taken the extra-fare charge off its crack all-Pullman Los Angeles Limited, U. P. will next week begin operating The Challenger between Chicago and Los Angeles. Composed of both "tourist sleepers" (old Pullmans) and coaches, The Challenger will run as a second section of the Los Angeles Limited, make precisely the same time. Fare and Pullman on the Los Angeles Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles is $82.28. Coach fare on The Challenger between the same points will...
...Challenger passengers, coach as well as tourist, there will be a registered trained nurse, porter service, free drinking cups and free pillows day or night. Women who do not have the price of a tourist Pullman may ride in Women's De Luxe Coaches, relax in a Ladies' Lounge. On the Limited, a passenger would have a hard time eating for less than...
...Savannah, Ga. Jerry R. & Mamie Steele Cox, Negro servants of the late Cinemactress Marie Dressier, used the $50,000 they got from Miss Dressler's will to open a combination night club and tourist camp called Cocoanut Grove, after the famed Los Angeles hotspot...
...Edmonds was wise in letting well enough alone. Perhaps the most interesting part of the little book is the explanation of the "Lawrence Legend" which is ascribed almost entirely to the fertile mind of Lowell Thomas and which grew to such proportions that as late as 1931 a tourist in Spanish Morocco was arrested because his second name was Lawrence and the authorities were afraid that he would incite a rebellion of the natives...