Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segment of the population . . . Prejudice is born in ignorance and dispelled by knowledge." He got it on the record early that "we've room on these islands for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the Red flag." He pledged himself to work for a bigger tourist trade ("but an economy based on the tourist trade alone is not a stable one"), to aid schools, to help end the islands' water shortage...
Manitobans like to boast that their Music Competition Festival, held in Winnipeg every year since 1918, is the biggest and best of its kind in the world. There seems to be little doubt about the bigness; tourist folders proudly proclaim that more than 20,000 children from the province's schools take part...
Travel often requires, a lot of driving, always requires a lot of money, but if the tourist plans his time well he can see much and also have a good time...
From Colombo, Copps cabled: "An assignment to cover the activities of a 72-year-old tourist might seem a soft touch. It is anything but soft when that tourist is Prime Minister St. Laurent, who must certainly be one of the world's most energetic septuagenarians. In India and Ceylon he has been following a 15-hours-a-day schedule of official functions, sightseeing and shopping. The amount of shopping he and his party have done is best seen on the manifest of the Royal Canadian Air Force plane. There were 70 pieces of luggage on board when...
...Calamity. The change in tourism, however, is not the biggest change in Florida. In fact, the most notable thing about Florida in 1954 is that tourism is no longer the beginning and end of the state's economy. In other times, a slow-starting tourist season might have meant a statewide calamity. Now it means no such thing...