Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little has the public heard of tourists returning from abroad who fail to declare the full value of their purchases, hoping to cheat the Government of its legal customs dues. Next to nothing has the public heard of the Government mulcting tourists of from 30% to 40% more in tariff duties than is legally collectible. Recently persons not so ignorant of the law as the average tourist began to make in- quiries. Last week, Customs officials publicly admitted that tourists have for years paid millions of dollars more in tariff duties than the law authorizes. "Ah," said cynics, "the shoes...
Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The great Vienna International Fair, Austria's semi-annual chance to make trade contacts with other countries would open in a few days. Without tourists, the fair could not succeed. What was the Chancellor going...
...lack of a reliable guide book was met last Fall through publication by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin of a very complete tourist guide titled All About Hawaii, very amply illustrated with photographs, maps and tables, carrying also historic and contemporary facts and statistics...
...26th is the "Yankee Division." National Guardsmen from Maine. They have placed their church not upon the ancient stones of the old site, but on the tourist-ridden highway from Paris to Château-Thierry and Metz; not over the tombs of long-dead Frenchmen, but beside the 2nd Division cemetery...
...year 1347 King Charles of Bohemia, while hunting through a rocky, gorge-like valley, discovered that in the streams of the district flowed waters with remarkable medicinal properties. Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often...