Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain and pre-holiday traffic on Wednesday resulted in three accidents which hospitalized a Harvard motorcyclist and two Radcliffe bicyclists...
...airline strike, falling on the rush season of students flying home over the Thanksgiving holiday, has paralyzed a sizeable percentage of the intended holiday air travel, and has swelled the demand for bus and train transportation beyond capacity...
Cool Bucks. Despite Holiday's success, one production official complains that "putting on this show in India has been more frustrating than in any other country we've ever been in." Frustration began on the docks of Bombay, where $1,500 worth of lighting equipment was light-fingered away, continued apace when the New Delhi arrival of Old Betsy, Holiday's 20-ton icemaking compressor, was delayed ten days by a flood. Manager Carl Snyder found the stadium grounds awash in mud, although the monsoon was well over; municipal engineers eventually located a broken water main, while...
What keeps the managers of Holiday on Ice from throwing up their hands and going into the plumbing supply business is the fact that, for all its loony complications, the show turns a cool buck. Holiday Inc. grossed more than $10 million (more than half of it overseas) with six companies last season, expects to do $9,000,000 with five troupes this year...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...