Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARRY A. FRANCK has written a new book of travel. It is his seventeenth, and will be avidly welcomed by thousands of members of the Franck Fireside Club. This time America's perennial rambler goes tourist for a thirty day excursion among the wonders of Sovietland from Leningrad to Tiflis, from Moscow to Odessa...
...argument centered on the establishment of a tourist camp called the "Swiss Village," which had attracted to the vicinity undesirable people. Action on the part of the neighbors led to the litigation...
Sequoia (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) concerns an abnormal affinity between a deer and a puma who meet in Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
...seagoing people, U. S. citizens are the blood & bone of the ocean travel business. Last week the Department of State released Passport Bureau statistics showing what sort of person the average U. S. tourist is. He turned out to be a male resident of New York City, taking his wife and children to Western Europe to visit relatives. By occupation he might be almost anything from a clerk to a schoolteacher. Of the 139,590 men, women & children who went abroad in 1934 the largest single occupational group were housewives (16,314), the next biggest group people with no occupation...
First a Japanese youth in neat store clothes suddenly broke from the tourist ranks just as a sulphur cloud belched up, leaped into the crater. Next with a wild yell a second youth in store clothes followed the first. After that for minutes nothing happened. The tourists, their nerves tingling with thrills, turned gradually away, began to leave the crater. Just then a mild-mannered young man in a Japanese kimono inched imperceptibly toward the edge. Several Japanese ladies screamed as he stripped off his kimono, revealing a handsome torso stark naked. "Police!" cried the ladies. "Stop him!" But clean...