Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alberta was sure it would get all this back, and more. Pre-season bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
Collecting letters, manuscripts and books about Browning he found an expensive hobby for a teacher. During the 1920s the Armstrong Educational Tours, which he organized, flourished. He traveled all over the world with them. One year, his travel agency grossed $1,000,000. Extra money went into Browningiana. And every spare hour Armstrong worked over his collection, carefully unpacking, arranging, cataloguing his treasures. Said his wife: "I'm an in-law of Browning...
...Room. Some of the European countries found that they had oversold their attractions. Sweden even bought ads in U.S. newspapers discouraging midsummer travel-its hotels were full. But most still had the welcome mat out. The Netherlands was advertising the Queen's Golden Jubilee; Belgium plugged two international fairs and the famed Belgian cuisine; Norway touted its fjords; Britain listed the Olympics, horse races and regattas; Italy had an arm-long series of fairs and festivals from hot jazz to trapshooting. Europeans hoped that U.S. tourists would spend $300 million this year, twice as much...
Barnaby will not travel northward with his team to the Dartmouth contest...
...bill calls for registration of all Communist party officials in a move to exclude them from government jobs and deny them passports to travel abroad...