Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effect of the crisis that Déjoie imprudently touched off was to transfer much of his support to Leftist Fignole, and make the government less stable than ever. Moreover the week's tumult crippled the winter's tourist business, Haiti's second after coffee, and hundreds of hotel workers were laid...
...Soviets in 1918 wasted little time expropriating the treasures of Shchukin and other wealthy collectors, pooled them to form Moscow's famed Museum of Modern Western Art. Used as tourist bait for years, the museum was closed during World War II by Stalin, who liked his artists regimented and realist. Only in the post-Stalin years have the paintings begun to reappear in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin Museums...
...Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee...
...bombs, could still hear the noisy blasts they made. Three nights out of six. explosions ripped the Havana air at exactly 8:30 p.m.. leading thousands to conclude that they had better stay home evenings. Apparently by plan, several bomb setters touched off blasts within earshot of the tourist-packed Hotel Nacional. In the eastern province of Oriente. where a few score irregulars (who last month invaded Cuba under Rebel Leader Fidel Castro) were still fighting from hideouts in the Sierra Maestra range, four small army garrisons were attacked. In the resulting fighting, 28 soldiers and insurgents were reported...
...Cramped Ground. In Manhattan, after he arrived by ship from Rotterdam, Motorbike Tourist Hugo De Wys scouted the area, regretfully told well-wishers he would have to leave immediately because there was no place to pitch his tent...