Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colonies, once rich treasure islands fought over by the fleets of Nelson, Rodney and De Grasse, are now impoverished and decaying. Overpopulated, underfed, off the direct pathways of world trade, they have been kept going in recent years mainly by meager doles from the mother countries and rising U.S. tourist trade. Seeking ways out of their luckless predicament, some have suggested switching allegiance to the U.S., a few have talked of lining up with nearby independent countries, and others, defying harsh economic realities, have demanded immediate independence...
...Avenue bridge. He had been in high spirits the week before--his girl was coming in from Smith, his tuxedo was in shape, his tickets were high on the forty. But when he tried to find a place for her to stay, he came to grief. At hotels and tourist homes in Boston and around the Square, he either got brush-offs or exorbitant prices. When the hour of her arrival at South Station found him with nothing better for her than a park bench, Pumley was thinking seriously of the Bridge...
...Pumley. But the haphazard rooming scheme for out-of town dates causes many headaches and unnecessary waste of time. If one files a reservation weeks in advance and can afford it, he might get a room at one of the hotels. Otherwise, he can seek out the tourist homes on the PBH housing list, or try to convince a hospitable Radcliffe girl to take in a houseguest...
Both alternatives, however, fail to fill the demand. The Housing Office lists but a handful of weekend tourist homes, most of which fill up weeks in advance. Bound by the fire laws, Radcliffe dormitories can only assign guests the beds of girls who have left for the weekend--and big social weekends are hardly the time for a mass exodus from Radcliffe. If they wish to avoid the trials of Pumley, students must try the outlying suburbs or high priced hotels...
Other schools seem to handle the problem quite well. At Yale, for example, a student agency digs up rooms, quotes prices, and gives students letters of introduction to tourist homes. Of course, the female importing business at New Haven is on a considerably larger scale. The College needs only a temporary agency to operate before the major social weekends...