Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michael Starr pointed out that two Canadian publications, Weekend and Star Weekly, have achieved circulations of nearly 1,000,000 in recent years. "This is not a depressed Canadian industry," said Starr. "On the contrary, it is a thriving, prosperous example of Canadian enterprise at its competitive best...
...royal limousine window, Britain's Princess Anne, a winsome five, shyly leaned forward to wave at the crowds and the birdie, momentarily eclipsing her mother Queen Elizabeth II as they left London's St. Pancras railway station. They were returning from a weekend in Leicestershire as house guests of Coldstream...
...Weekend. To boost company revenues, as well as to speed travel, Reed cultivates most of the top businessmen and Government officials in the U.S. and abroad. One postwar venture for the company was suggested by President Eisenhower, with whom Reed occasionally plays golf. Europe-bound on the Queen Mary in 1946, Reed was called in by Fellow Passenger Ike, who suggested that American Express could set up recreation, banking and sightseeing services for U.S. occupation troops. As a result, American Express now operates 115 overseas offices and 54 mobile units for G.I.s, has 30 agents to handle sailors' tours...
...foreign travel has decreased from the 0.8% peak in 1929. But as travel becomes faster and cheaper, he predicts, foreign countries will lure more than 2,500,000 U.S. tourists a year by 1960, an increase of 50%. Says Reed: "American Express is already planning the jet age weekend in Europe...
...from his typewriter and copy paper, he moved over to another small Communist office, went back to cranking out the local news he writes for the Illinois edition of the Worker. After two days of the circulation windfall, the New York headquarters, which prints all six editions of the weekend Worker,* decided to run off 34,500 copies instead of the usual...