Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat.* Said he: "People want to see somebody go over those...
Albania's ex-King Zog, who has been living in England and Egypt for the past eleven years, arrived in Manhattan, on his first visit to the U.S., for a tourist's look at "some modern civilization...
...backhand slaps itself. The house was locked; Internal Revenue agents had seized it as part payment of a $161,000 back income tax bill. Where was the rest of the money coming from? Virginia had no idea. Said she, huffing off to spend the night in a tourist cabin, "I never worked in my life...
...motor court business was officially launched in 1913, according to the Tourist Court Journal, when a Douglas, Ariz, operator prettied up six tiny mining cottages, rented them out to passing tourists. Thus the hotel business reached the end of a full-circle swing. In Revolutionary days, the inns dotted the highway as way stations for stagecoach travelers. When railroads were built, the inns moved into the cities. When the U.S. took to the road in automobiles, "tourist homes" and motels opened up in California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and other vacation states, gradually spread to all the other states...
...motel business had a $37-million-a-year gross and a rough reputation. During the 30s, such gangsters as John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd leased entire motels, used them as hideouts; many a motor-court operator reckoned the difference between profit & loss in the "two-hour-tourist" or "hot-pillow" trade. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover blasted the entire industry: "The tourist camp is today a new home of crime in America, a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder...