Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every tourist knows, London's horse guards take the vow of silence on duty. As they sit majestically astride their mounts in Whitehall, children may taunt them, cameramen may pop flashbulbs in their faces, and tourist guides may speak about the guardsmen as if they were not really there. The guardsman is under orders never to move a muscle except to control his horse, never to speak except to summon a policeman or foot sentry "if something happens." For almost 300 years it has been that...
Whether a customer wants to sell a house in which all the rooms are round (Previews sold one in New Jersey) or turn his farm into a tourist paradise, Previews' approach is the same. Previews gets 1½% of the asking price for handling a property on a three-year contract, advertises it with attractive brochures, often distributed to as many as 5,000 other brokers. When the property is sold, Previews picks up another 2½%. The local broker also gets a commission...
...summer quest for the tourist dollar, the world's largest city paraded an exuberant proclamation for the tourist to read: "New York Is a Summer Festival." But grimly unfestive was a shadowy battle that had swirled through the city streets during winter and spring, indeed during all the seasons since World...
...museums. Even as demonstrators paraded through the streets of Paris earlier this month, the Louvre's attendance rolled on at a steady 3,000 a day. Nothing short of war or revolution will keep the crowds below 5,000 a day at the peak of the tourist season in mid-August. Nowhere on earth is there another edifice dedicated to man's delight in art that is comparable to the mammoth structure along the Seine, spreading over 49 acres...
...recession is hurting the island, and with unionization and rising wages, the tax-exemption law, which expires at the end of 1963, is left as the main incentive. But in a single week recently, U.S. investors were in Puerto Rico to study prospects in plastic webbing, dresses, sportswear, tourist hotels, motorboat trailers, wall tiles, plastic toys, scientific apparatus, shoe machinery and cookies...