Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to keep-we were late most of the way along the route, at one time as much as two hours and ten minutes which was later mostly made up) is not 52 hours but 51½. Secondly, their fare is not $24, but $29.50 plus $5 berth charge. Other minor points: there is no table in the compartments: there is no "hot"' water; the radio went out of commission within an hour of our start in our compartment but it wasn't any good any way because of static due to the bus generator...
Reader Squires errs in his second major point. As TIME reported, the Los Angeles-Kansas City fare is $24 plus $5 for a berth. The rate is not to be confused with the Los Angeles-Chicago fare of $29.50 plus berth...
...signal system. Baltimore & Ohio dramatized its operation in a series of adventures (all with happy endings) involving personnel and passengers. Chesapeake & Ohio shrewdly publicized itself as the road surveyed and "founded" by George Washington, made a brilliant paragraph of advertising history with its kitten "Chessie" snugly tucked in a berth ("Sleep Like a Kitten...
...strong. Individual Eastern advertisements, however, follow the new trend. New York Central enticingly depicts a Repeal club-car scene ("There's more to the 20th Century than 17-hour speed"). Sauciest 1935 copy was published by up-&-coming Chesapeake & Ohio: a honeymoon couple in a lower berth, captioned "Here you are, Conductor-the certificate and two tickets on The George Washington...
...will take 52 hr. - 6 hr. less than the old schedule. Regular basic fare is $24, plus $5 for a berth, upper or lower. Built by General Motors, the nitecoach has berths for 25 including five double-berths 47 in. wide, which cost $7. Single berths are 29 in. wide, 6 ft. long...