Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commenting on this venture, he laments, "After a year, the cows began to die more and more rapidly; in fact, all the livestock was sick. The barn floor began to crumble, and the whole thing became a bottomless pit which nothing could fill." He now compromises with a small cabin in the New Hampshire woods. And a few times a year he is lured to a local movie, but returns each time reassured that he can do without the film industry...
...above the tourist class, in the more expensive and less popular cabin first-class accomodations, leading steamship lines can still provide room on almost any sailing this summer. One-way prices range here from $220 to $285 for cabin berths, and from $325 up for first-class...
...silk textile business, the Japanese had looked forward eagerly to the well-advertised arrival of the Caronia, for its staterooms were filled with the most expensive collection of dollar-heavy souvenir hunters ever to hit the Ginza. In accommodations that cost from $2,750 (for a B-deck cabin with two bunks) to $29,000 (for a main deck suite), they had come from the U.S. (500 of them in all) to see the Pacific in style over a leisurely 99 days, picking up memories and mementos in exotic ports from Pitcairn Island to Singapore. In Kobe, the first...
...Dusen comes in the summer, when he takes about six weeks off to spend with his wife and three college-age boys at his country place at Sorrento, Me. Even here, he spends at least three hours a day studying and writing in a remote and tiny cabin named Seclusion, where he has written most of his twelve books and countless articles. (His wife has a similar cabin. Its name: Solitude...
...prices at a time when German and Japanese competition is rising. Exports to the vital U.S. market have already dropped as a result of the U.S. downturn. But Butler is cheerful; he likens the British reaction to an old lady on a cruise: "She locks herself up in the cabin and is a little seasick, more out of apprehension than because of rough seas. Then the steward knocks on the door and tells her: 'We are two days out, ma'am, and the weather is fine.' Now, like the old lady, we are walking the deck...