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Show EUROPE BIDDING FOR TOURIST TRADE FROM U. S. European nations are now bidding bid-ding for a share of the expected U. S. national tourist expenditure of ten billion dollars that will be spent by an estimated fifty million American vacationists the coming season. While Utah's tourist business will not suffer from European competition this year, it must be' remembered that as. time passes, Europe's bid for . the American tourist business now the fastest growing industry in .the nation will become stronger and stronger. Even now, tweive major steamship steam-ship lines are either starting trips to Europe or scheduled to start this spring. These lines operate 21 big ships and could move 22,000 passengers in one trip to Europe, if .they all left at once. In addition, about 800 trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic flights operate on an average av-erage per month out of La Guar-dia Guar-dia Field in New York for Europe. Eu-rope. Their carrying capacity is around 25,000 passengers. The .flights will be stepped up by summer. sum-mer. 1 |