Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a revolution here every Thursday afternoon at half-past 2, and our government is run like a nightclub," cracked Don Juan Palacios, the improbable count in Ludwig Bemelmans' 1941 travel book about Ecuador, The Donkey Inside. If the count (or Bemelmans) were to visit Ecuador this week, he might have to eat those cynical words. One of South America's backward nations has been undergoing a healthy change. Since 1950, Ecuador...
...boom in European travel this year will be the greatest ever. Last week transatlantic airlines and shiplines predicted that they will boost last year's record haul by 10%, carry abroad more than 600,000 Americans who will spend upwards of half a billion dollars...
...Other Side. In the U.S. reservation clerks and travel agents were hard pressed to keep up with jingling telephones and lines at the ticket counters. Though airline tickets on first-class nights abroad are still in fair supply, tourist flights have been almost sold out. TWA's tourist nights for June are 85% booked, and Pan American's tourist runs are reserved from 60 to 90 days ahead. Ocean liners are even more popular. The U.S. Lines' 1,700-passenger United States and 950-passenger America are booked solid for all tourist and cabin classes until August...
...choose from. One is the high, hard-surfaced speedway to war; another is the low, crawling path to appeasement. In between lies the third-a rutted, twisting route, shrouded here by patches of fog, mined there by enemy booby traps. Last week, amid cries from critics who wanted to travel either the high road or the low, Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles churned resolutely along the center route. At times, it was difficult to see where they were going, but it was clear that, by way of deterrence and diplomacy, they hoped eventually to arrive at peace...
...This rise chiefly reflects the boom in pari-mutuel betting and pinball and slot-machine playing (whose net receipts more than trebled in a decade, to $419 million in 1952). Contributions to political and civic organizations will climb 45.8%. Buying of jewelry and watches will be up 37.2%, foreign travel 53.7%, medical insurance 60.6%, private schooling 101.4%, and airline travel 187.4%. The nation's highways will teem with 59 million cars, 47% more than in 1950. Looking farther ahead, in 1975 the U.S. will be generating 1,400 billion kw-h of electric power, 3½ times...