Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cornered him a final time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...
Landing in France, Tourist Harry S. (for Swinomish) Truman, on his first trip to Europe since 1945 and Potsdam, was soon strolling the streets of Gay Paree, swinging his cane in best boulevardier style, his jauntiness cramped only by a sprained ankle. Before leaving Independence, explained Truman, "I was getting some bags down the stairs and stumbled. But it was 7 o'clock in the morning, so nobody can accuse me of anything." He sipped coffee at the Café de la Paix, a favorite hangout for Artillery Captain Truman during leaves in World War I. After his short...
...shot came to call on me and told afterward what was said . . . he didn't get in any more." After a quick change to street clothing, the Trumans went to Sunday services at 77-year-old St. Paul's American Episcopal Church. This week, tireless Tourist Truman was eager to be off for Venice, where, heard he, "the streets are flooded, and I want to see this for myself...
...rate transatlantic fares-some 25% below present tourist rates and about half the price of a first-class ticket-were approved last week by the Civil Aeronautics Board. In a letter to U.S. members of the International Air Transport Association, which has final authority over international airline fares, CAB pointed out that the new rates are "technically and economically feasible." The proposed new round-trip New York-London fare...
First proposed by Pan American World Airways (TIME, May 14), cut-rate flights would be based on a new class of service. Passengers would sit five across and be allowed 44 lbs. of baggage, as on present tourist flights, but would have four inches less leg room between seats. The airlines would sell sandwiches, serve no hot meals or liquor. They would thus be able to cut down the galley, make do with two stewardesses, and carry as many as 104 passengers, v. 71 on present tourist flights. On a DC-7B, the flight would take 13 hours, including stopovers...