Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is the most significant day in the history of the great state of Florida," said Governor Haydon Burns fantastically. Possibly it was, for then fantastic Walt Disney, 64, announced that he will enrich the state's tourist folklure by conjuring up a $100 million Disneyland East on 27,000 acres south of Orlando. "It's the biggest thing we've ever tackled," beamed Walt, who won't repeat Disneyland West, but isn't saying what goodies he has in mind. Burns had in mind a 50% increase in tourist trade, and straightway named Disney...
...banks are also under voluntary controls on lending abroad, and have been pressured by the Administration into not raising interest rates at home. Some businessmen fear that the Government may soon impose tighter controls on capital moving abroad, put a head tax on tourist travel, or even require licenses to build plants overseas...
Many whites bugged out in despair; others sold their farms but took jobs flying bush planes, running tourist camps, still staying in the grand, gaudy country they loved. Today, there are And Dares-41,000 whites in Kenya, and they are by their own testimony happier than they were before uhuru. From the four Kenya races-African, Asian, European and Arab-Jomo Kenyatta has forged the closest thing to a united nation that can be found in black Africa. More important, the four African ethnic groups -Bantu, Nilotic, Nilot-Hamitic and the Hamites-are in greater harmony now than ever...
...farms in the past six years at a cost to Paris of some $20 million. In an effort to placate the locals, Somivac last week nervously assigned four additional farms to native Corsicans, rather than to the repatriates for whom they had originally been intended. Somivac's tourist counterpart, Setco, has already built four new hotels and is carving yacht basins along Corsica's bright, barren beaches-the most beautiful in the Mediterranean. The island's feral beauty has drawn visitors in increasing numbers-443,000 last year (up 20% from...
...Ernst Hohner, 79, third-generation head of Germany's House of Hohner, producer of 95% of the world's harmonicas, who took over the firm in 1923, added a line of electronic instruments and a music-printing plant, and developed the company town of Trossingen into a tourist favorite known as the "Singing Village"; of heart disease; in Trossingen, Germany...