Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frank Henry Cook, 69, grandson of Founder Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook & Son (tourist agency) and onetime head of the firm; in Wonersh, Surrey, England...
...passed it by. Latvian authorities made one attempt to resurrect their capital by advertising the city as a summer resort. Knowing people recognize the Gulf of Riga as an ideal spot for small boat racing in summer. Its waters are quite warm enough for comfortable swimming, but the average tourist, looking at Riga on their atlases, finding it north of Edinburgh's latitude, refused to believe...
...Tourist Durant last week returned from her trip, announced she had flown 12,000 miles over 19 countries at a cost of 7? a mile. "All I can say," said she, "is that flying over North Africa, Western Asia, and the Balkans is no Sunday School picnic...
...industry has been sunk deeper by Depression than transatlantic shipping. Plumb lines measuring the depth: a 30% to 50% decrease this year in American tourist traffic; a corresponding $250,000,000 drop in European tourist receipts. Last week, at the insistence of the Britishers, 18 major transatlantic lines met in Paris to take action...
Smarter than Jew Fagin who taught young Oliver Twist to steal, one Clarence Warren, 33, Chicago "tourist," taught a Macaque monkey (the small sort which organ grinders use to collect coins) to pick up and hide small odds & ends from store counters. Clarence Warren named his monkey Clarence. Clarence Macaque and Clarence Warren have been visiting Chicago Woolworth and Kresge stores where well-taught Clarence Macaque shoplifted while the clerks giggled. Last week both Clarences were arrested, jailed...