Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting in the eastern Caribbean, Hurricane Hazel pottered harmlessly over the water for an entire week, poking tentatively westward, turning leisurely to the north. Then Hazel hit Haiti. Like many another lady tourist in that exotic land, Hazel went wild...
...over the water) rescued many from the rooftop-dotted waters of the Humber and Don Rivers. But the drowned and killed totaled at least 66, and damage in Ontario was estimated at $100 million. By the time cold currents over Hudson Bay finally put an ice pack on Tourist Hazel, the eighth hurricane of the season had blown up into the year's worst, and the autumn storm season itself was the worst in a decade...
...seem to have faded away like the mountain summer. G.O.P. Congressman William Henry Harrison, grandson and great-great-grandson of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years in the Senate who was swept out of office by the Eisenhower landslide, is finding the parched grazing lands a fertile political...
According to Ravel, the IATA decision to terminate special student rates was forced by Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines, who claimed that the existence of regular tourist services did away with any need for solely student flights...
These special flights were started early in the summer of 1950 to fly American and European students back and forth across the ocean. Over $200 less than regular tourist services, the flights were designed primarily for students of limited means. According to NSA figures, more that 85 percent of U.S. college students using the special flights could not have gone abroad without the reduced rates...