Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Challenger. The majority of these travelers are still going by ship, although the airlines, helped by their new tourist rates, will carry almost as many. Like the planes, tourist space on the stately Queens, the elegant Ile de France, the Independence, Constitution, and all the other liners, is sold out till September. By midsummer, France will add her 23-knot, 20,300-ton Flandre to the transatlantic fleet, and Holland will put her 15,000-ton, 875-passenger Maasdam into service. But the prize of the new ships is the United States Lines' new superliner United States, the biggest...
...cabins are comfortable but not opulent. There are 344 first-class cabins (top price: $930 for double bedroom, bathroom and sitting room), 178 second or cabin class ($220 to $290), and 173 third or tourist class ($200 for an outside main-deck cabin with upper & lower berths and running water, to $165 for the cheapest cabin...
...Travel Incognito, Bemelmans adopts the cognomen of Ludwig, Prince of Bavaria. The title is pressed on him by his good friend, the Comte de St. Cucuface. "You must take full advantage of your title," Cucuface tells Prince Bemelmans. "You are now no longer a tourist to be pushed about. You are the one to do the pushing. You will give bad tips and be better served than anyone else. You must not pay your bills and shopkeepers will swear that you are indeed a real prince...
...night with a pistol by his hand but ultimately allowed him to write in Witness: "We traveled lightly and I drove as fast as possible. I knew that the Party had undergrounds in the South. I knew that it had members in the most unexpected places (filling stations and tourist camps worried me most...
...summer these roads buzz with traffic -for horses and horse farms, with their lush pastures, white fences, parklike woods and columned manors, are the state's chief tourist attraction...