Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile tariff, similar cuts on electric refrigerators, washing machines, radios and abolition of the duty on magazines.* Furthermore Canada promised to keep U. S. raw cotton on her free list. Duty free likewise will be soya beans, bristles, eggplant, artichokes, horseradish and okra, hop poles and railway ties, tourist literature, zinc dust, Mexican saddle trees. Duties will be lower on a multitude of off-season vegetables, on regalia and badges, on albumenized paper, peaviners, wire (single and several), pruning hooks, cantaloupes, dynamos, surgical dressings, sanitary napkins and abdominal supports...
...mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts as the ceremony would have been if held in France, sweeter still was the prospect of publicity in Manhattan where most transatlantic tourist trade originates. From England therefore, the Normandie brought Donor Hales, his capacious wife, the Duke, and sleek Gualtiero Fedrigoni, Italian Line manager in London. Delayed at the dock because he forgot to fill out a custom's declaration, Mr. & Mrs. Hales finally hustled off to the Waldorf-Astoria...
...Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
...Moscow these many months Mr. Bullitt has been the one envoy of a capitalist power who fraternized with Soviet folk of every sort. He could often be seen at parties with a Red ballerina, an immemorial Russian custom. Agents of the Soviet tourist bureau, Russian concert singers and Big Reds of all sorts have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs...
Many a lone tourist to Russia hopes that the female Intourist guide assigned him by the State will prove to have the easy morals he has heard about. Among these Soviet young women themselves, the Leningrad guides gossip incessantly about the Moscow guides and vice versa, each group claiming to be the more virtuous. Once iron Soviet discipline barred guides from accepting tips in any form but this order has now been relaxed, and for months the girls have been openly angling for tips. Last week came Intourist's first wide-open scandal, impossible to gloss over since...