AMERICAN ADVANTAGE IN EUROPE.
Upwards of 18,000 Alnericulls 11zL\':e' all-eacly applied for passports to visit" Europe during the summer season. The East-bound vessels of the Cunard Company are booked up until July. and other companies report “record business.”
The present rate of exchange provides a special inducement for Americans to spend their holidays in
Europe this year. Early in I+‘ebnlary. for example, an American tourist arriving in London with 13,/1.13 worth of dollar bills would be able to exchange them for £1 sterling. In Paris the same amount of money would lacwortli £1 17/6, and in Berlin £ls This means tlinf in Gerniany the {Curist tliem-etically would be able to lim-comfoi-tabl_V on a dollar :1. day. Enterprising AlllE‘l‘l.Cß.—llS are building a chain of temporary hotels along tlm battleline fbetxveeu Ypres and the Somme,, south of Amiens
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3474, 30 April 1920, Page 2
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136AMERICAN ADVANTAGE IN EUROPE. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3474, 30 April 1920, Page 2
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