Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tourist traffic in Palestine once consisted mainly of pious pilgrims, Sunday school teachers and lantern-slide lecturers. Today, what with Zionism and Palestine's private little surge of prosperity (TIME, Dec. 10), tourism is also on the upgrade. But if intelligent exploitation has brought a golf course to Galilee and good cocktails to the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, it has not yet produced any change in the conduct of the Holy Land's traditional attractions, Biblical sites. This fact profoundly depressed Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of The Christian Century, visiting Palestine on a cruise last month. Last...
Perhaps the most expert minicam operator is Dr. Paul Wolff of Frankfort, Germany, who bought one of the first Leica cameras, has since paid for his passion for traveling by selling his tourist snapshots Twenty-eight Wolff prints were on view. Easily the most striking photograph was a head-on shot of a sneering horse (see ait) taken in 1/60th of a second on panchromatic film by F. Fahnestock of New York...
Many a U. S. radio listener, one night last March, heard the first program in a 13-week series sponsored by the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau to advertise Mexico as a vacation spot. Lasting 15 minutes, the program went out over 15 stations of National Broadcasting Co.'s "Blue" network, covering the States East of the Mississippi, North of North Carolina. Angel Mercado's band tinkled Mexican popular tunes. In English, an announcer blurbed Mexico. In Spanish, a singer recited a poem to a musical accompaniment...
...March 11 issue of your fine magazine, on p. 30, appeared a map of Alaska depicting to the tourist the main cities and points of interest of the Territory. May I call your attention to the fact Anchorage, which ranks third in population of the Alaskan cities, is conspicuous by its absence...
...Anchor Line executives credited a 48% quarterly spurt over last year in cheap tourist bookings to the Jubilee...