Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired and rumpled as any returning tourist, tactless Harry Vaughan stepped off a banana boat in New York last week after a vacation in Guatemala, and promptly put his foot in his mouth. The day was hot and so was he, but a reporter managed to tag him for a brief interview. The reporter wanted to know about his connections with James V. Hunt, the Washington "five percenter," who had said Vaughan was a close friend (TIME, July...
...blockade tightened, raw sugar crammed the warehouses and overflowed into covered tennis courts, gymnasiums-anywhere it could be stored until there were ships to transport it. The pineapples were ripe and soon would be rotting in the fields. Unemployment was sharply up; several small businesses had folded. Tourist trade, almost as important to Hawaii as pineapple and sugar...
...Spare the Horses. Grandiose spectacles, and the sumptuous grandeur of its own size and trappings, have made the $4,600,000 Music Hall a show business nonpareil and a major tourist magnet. Last year, at prices from 80? to $2.40, it drew 16 times as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Of its 8,000,000 annual customers, half are out-of-towners...
...been unrealistic in several senses. The easiest comparison is with free exchange rates in other countries. The pound now sells legally for $3.15 in New York and for $2.92 on the free market in Paris. These bargain pounds, however, cannot be legally taken into Britain (except for a ?5 tourist allowance), and cannot be used in open commercial transactions for British goods. A much better comparison supporting the argument that $4.03 is an unrealistic rate is the fact that $4.03 will buy more of most goods inside the U.S. than ?1 will buy in Britain...
...Mexico City's tourist attractions, canal-laced Xochimilco, "Place of Flowers," is probably the best advertised. In their flatbottomed, flower-decked canoas, Xochimilco's boatmen pole sightseers, picnickers and lovers between the canals' eucalyptus-lined banks. Other canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...