Word: junket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Commissioner Allen set out on a week's junket, financed out of his own pocket. He took a train to Milwaukee, then traveled by street car and bus to Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago. Much of the time he went unshaven. He never spent more than $1.25 for a hotel room. Everywhere he presented him self as a candidate for work, in bread lines, at government relief stations, at employment agencies. When he got back to Washington last week he had something...
...traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115°. But on his world junket the Argentine locust would have seen what sharp-eyed traders began to foresee last spring. There is not enough wheat growing in the fields of the world to feed all the people in the world...
...Private car costs: $75 per day Pullman rental; 15 railroad fares, plus surcharge; $3.50 per day for parking. Approximate price of a round-trip private car Manhattan-Seattle junket...
...aviation because he had none. All he knows about flying he learned as a passenger on occasional flights over commercial airlines. This lack of expert knowledge, however, did not prevent him from announcing, after his commission's meetings last week in the White House Cabinet Room, that he would junket through Europe next month to size up the power and progress of foreign flying...
...through the Dardanelles, scene of Britain's greatest mistake and Turkey's chief glory during the Great War, steamed the Oriental brothers. The big, splendiferous windup of the King of Kings' junket was at Istanbul where the great Dolma Bagtche Palace of bygone Turkish Sultans was thrown open for a great ball to honor His Majesty. Reclining on a divan the King of Kings ate Turkish delight off a onetime Sultan's silver salver and puffed cigarets made for the occasion by the Turkish Tobacco Monopoly which had stamped on each the Persian Royal Arms. Meanwhile...