Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock job for the transportation experts in TIME'S Travel Bureau. Each month the department buys the transportation and handles all the details for some 1,500 "legs" of trips. A "leg" may be anything from a New York-Washington flight to arranging (at the peak of the tourist season) passage for Correspondent Thomas Dozier and family on a ship from New York to Spain, where he is to take over this month as Madrid bureau chief...
Budget Plan. Meal tickets for dining in some of Italy's best restaurants at a fixed price of $3.75 went on sale in travel agencies. Each coupon entitles a tourist to a complete dinner with entertainment and tips (drinks extra) in any of 23 listed restaurants in Rome. Palermo, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Turin, Venice and Viareggio...
Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). Crooner Sinatra sings in a strong, wide range about the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, a wishing-well attraction for the tourist. Result: plenty of coins in the jukeboxes...
...mahogany, essential oils. The U.S. buys 76% of Guatemala's products, sells Guatemala 64% of all that she buys. By paying high prices for coffee, the U.S. helps Guatemala keep the currency at par with the dollar, and the government budget healthy. Communist agitation has ruined a flourishing tourist trade once worth $2,500,000 a year...
...sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen, but the insane metropolis "painted like fog with some yellow and raspberry added" that Cèline alone is capable of seeing...