Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-hour, nonstop flight to Paris. Called the "Golden Parisian" the flight will use Lockheed Super Constellations fitted to carry only 32 passengers (instead of 56), cost an extra $25 above the $415 regular first-class fare. Travelers who want even fancier treatment can have a private cabin for one or two ($125 extra...
...decision involving a physician who runs an industrial clinic, the court also disallowed deductions for gifts to nurses, hospitals and parking lot attendants, as well as for hunting trips, lunches and the costs of publishing an article on industrial medicine. Towards running a cabin cruiser and entertainment on it for physicians and friends, the court allowed only...
...neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard one of his own four-engine Sikorsky Clippers to inspect a job of interior decoration done by Pan American Airways...
...manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane in history?a magnificent affair with a glassed-in cabin, a dining table and an outside observation platform from which Sikorsky liked to admire the clouds as his creation lumbered through the air at 60 miles an hour...
...talk with the poets." But Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce and the other "Bards of San Francisco Bay," as he dubbed them, refused to take Joaquin as seriously as he took himself. Undaunted, he printed up some calling cards, "Joaquin Miller: Byron of the Rockies," booked a $65 cabin and sailed for London...