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...modernity of Madrid was a disappointment to Traveler Tomlinson, but in a newspaper office there (El Sol) he saw some satirical murals by Artist Bagaria that made him think of Goya. By motorbus he went to Toledo, La Mancha, Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada. Traveler Tomlinson noted all the proper sights but it was the least thing that set him philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than...
...York, New Haven & Hartford has scheduled excursions from New York and way stations to Fabyan, N. H., and from Boston to Provincetown. The New England Steamship Co. advertised a personally escorted total eclipse Cape Cod tour from Manhattan for $25. Hotels outside the 100-mi, belt of totality organized motorbus services to take guests into the zone...
...Germany without encountering?whether you know it or not?the name of Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company was on the verge...
...would ask, besides rate upping for long hauls, for sharp cuts on short hauls where they compete directly with motor trucks. So desperate is the railroads' fight against bus & truck competition that fortnight ago before the I. C. C., Reading Co. made a horrid example of its own motorbus subsidiary as a beneficiary of undertaxation...
None, however, denied Lieut. Settle's statement that Maybach alone is proven for dirigibles,* that the power-plant requirements of airplane and airship differ as do those of racing car and motorbus. Dirigible engines must: run thousands of hours between overhauls, have low weight and low fuel consumption, be reversible in operation (for maneuvering), cool properly while maneuvering at small air speed, be safe from fire, be capable of repair in flight. In view of the requisites, particularly those of reliability, low fuel consumption and reduced fire hazard, Lieut. Settle predicts the airship engine of the future will...