Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1936 Eastern railroads began selling passenger tickets at 2? a mile (after 16 years at 3.6?). Within a few months officials complained that the low fare was a losing proposition. Increase in traffic, they said, was not enough to compensate for the cut rate. After hearing them grumble for months, the Interstate Commerce Commission last July permitted them to hike their fares to 2½? mile. This was expected to raise income about $32,000.000 (TIME, July...
...opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need it no longer." Whalen: "We were thinking of you in the World of Tomorrow...
...first session, attend ance was to the mosque's capacity as Mr. Emery's $50,000 business is to U. S. Steel Corp. A Philadelphia cloak & suit man named Charles Bloome offered a resolution to move the convention downtown so that he could save 75? cab fare each way. Mr. Emery: "Why can't five delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon the delegates began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers...
...precise effects are not perfectly known. Only unpleasant reactions were flushing, itching and sensations of intense heat in various parts of the skin. There are many relapses, mostly because the patients, when convalescent, have to return home, where once again they tuck in to the old bill-of-fare: salt pork, corn meal, molasses...
...Matawan, N. J., Judson Van Arsdale, 59, advertised for a wife. Out of 80 replies he picked May Meyers, 57, of Washington, D. C., sent her railway fare. Before they were married, May went home to see her daughter. Impatient, Judson sent railway fare to another candidate, Nellie Davis, 44, of Paris, Ill. May and Nellie arrived at the same time. Unable to make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady...