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...with these eager trippers. The Dixie Clipper can carry 74, but sleeps only 40. Twenty-two applicants were finally booked, on a first-come-first-served basis. Many, not knowing how much the fare would be, had sent varying amounts (biggest: $1,500). The airline decided on a one-way fare of $375; round trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Want To Be First | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...TIME'S $215 figure should have read $125. Matson Line minimum one-way fare to Honolulu: $125; Canadian Pacific (out of Vancouver): $115 on small boats, $125 on Empress of Japan; American President Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Also out for business, and willing to cut first-class rates to get it, were three Pacific steamship lines, American President, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Their bid: a round trip from San Francisco to the Orient during April and May for the unprecedented price of a one-way ticket -i.e., $350 to Yokohama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: After Business | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...common butterwort is one of several plants which exude a sticky substance so that the leaves act like flypaper. "Pitcher plants" grow leaves that collect and hold water in which insects, birds and mice, attracted by toothsome exudates, fragrant smells or bright colors, are drowned. The bladderwort is an underwater plant whose bladders are equipped with elastic, one-way valves. Once a small crustacean or fish has ventured in, he cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Bites Animal | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...brightly colored playroom that is not as innocent as it looks, the youngsters are exposed to temptation, have their curiosity aroused and are purposely frustrated while an observer watches them through a one-way screen; even moving pictures can be taken of the unsuspecting youngsters through a mirror that is really a window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Psychologists Make Study of Personality Traits of Children | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

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