Word: hiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swindle? One headache which both Franklin Roosevelt and Chairman Altmeyer sought to save old Bob Doughton was that of worrying over where the money for a revamped, certainly more expensive, Social Security program is to come from. Without passing on the board's recommendation that the 1940 hike in employer-employe taxes from 2% to 3% should be the last, pending study of the Act's finances, Mr. Altmeyer told the committee that Secretary Morgenthau was studying the subject, would report in due time...
...agreed that Cambridge was "awfully dull" and wished that she could have stayed in New Haven longer. "The boys there never study," she said. "It's much easier to hitch-hike there...
...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...
...under a sky clear except for a few flaky, high clouds, the climbers left the lodge, 16 on skis with "climbers,"* four on snowshoes. They followed a snow-tractor's broad track for two miles, then cached snowshoes and skis and began to hike. At a chute near a crag called Crater Rock, they affixed crampons (spikes) to their boots to insure their footing on ice. Split into three strings, they followed two trailbreakers, cutting steps ahead, up Zig Zag draw to the west of Crater Rock, to within 50 feet of the top ridge...
...armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...