Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, one-fourth of the passenger traffic flying between points in the U.S. will be by air coach, saving 30%. More than half of all transatlantic plane passengers are buying tourist fare tickets at the same saving. To cash in on this boom, United next week will drop six of its twelve regular-fare flights to Honolulu and increase its air-coach flights from four to eight a week...
...chemical plants." The Gossets were impressed with the advance of Negro education; they called all-Negro Howard University (in Washington, D.C.) "more modern than the average European university." To the French reporters, the Vieux Carre of French New Orleans was a fake-with its "pretentious airs of romanticism," its "tourist traps." In Paris, Tenn., the Gossets felt a twinge of outraged national pride at the "made in Paris" perfumes. But their spirits revived when they saw a horseman ride up to a parking meter, throw the bridle across the meter, dismount and deposit a coin...
Much of the Baptists' mustard-seed growth has come from immigration, mainly from Baptist-heavy Texas, drawn by oil booms, defense centers (notably Los Alamos) and tourist folders. But an incalculable amount is the result of the Baptists' aggressive evangelism. Sparkplug of this go-getting gospeling is up-and-doing Dr. Harry P. Stagg, 55, a minister who came to New Mexico from Louisiana in 1930, and has been executive secretary of the New Mexico Baptists for the past 15 years. Rotarian Stagg has pushed mission work and evangelistic camp meetings, to harvest a bumper crop of conversions...
FRANCE'S Union Aéromaritime de Transport started the world's first tourist-fare jet flights. On its run between Paris and Brazzaville, the line's Comet jets carry 44 passengers (v. 36 on regular-fare flights) for 107,000 francs ($305) each-$75 less than Air France's deluxe Constellation fare, and the same price as Air France's tourist service...
...Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...