Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington mileage probably representing the heaviest non-commuting traffic in the country. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis are among its ports of call. It has a heavy Pullman traffic from New York to Chicago and is a great connecting road for traffic bound from New York to the South. Furthermore, its Long Island rail-road alone carried more than 79,000,000 passengers...
...Francisco one day last week churned the Panama Pacific Liner California, bound for Manhattan. Next day, when the ship put in at San Pedro, her 374 seamen refused to take her to sea again unless their pay was jacked from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East...
...China Clipper buzzed blithely into Manila for the second time. At Wake Island, on the return trip, it landed beside its sister, the Philippine Clipper, outward bound on its second trip to Manila. It was the first time two Clippers had met in transpacific service...
...about time somebody stepped in and told them what to do. And don't let anybody kid you, telling you you're not the one to do it. Anybody that can get along in politics the way you did is bound to be right. And you have to keep your eye on those college boys, because pretty soon they're going to be voting, and if you don't see to it that they know what's what, who will? The Dartmouth, Sat., March...
...spite of the warm weather during the last week, Crimson oarsmen will continue to work-out in the ice-bound Newell for another ten days. Harvard will be lucky if it has shells in use two weeks from today, although the Leviathan and a barge or two will probably be on the water next Wednesday. Shells can not be used, even after the ice breaks up, until the floating cakes and debris following the thaw have disappeared...