Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge anticipated the end of his vacation season and began to go forth from his secluded island and mingle more with the people. He planned a morning ride all through the streets and ore docks of Duluth, Minnesota. He planned a trip on the yacht of H. L. Gary of Kansas City to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. He journeyed, taking Mrs. Coolidge and son John Coolidge with him, to Wausau, Wisconsin, for a state convention of the American Legion, where he clapped a red "overseas" cap on his head and made a speech praising the war-renouncing...
...Last week the United Press discovered it. Aboard were 13 gaming tables, 38 slot machines and a cash girl trained to give 18 quarter-dollars in exchange for a $5 bill. "Guests" were being taken aboard from the shore in speedboats, 40 at a load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described...
Philip A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Marine Co., went to a ship, the Virginia (Panama Pacific Line), the largest steamer ever built in the U. S. (thirtyfour thousand tons). He went to look, not to ride; the vessel will not operate until December...
Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
Certain debased and penny-pinching non-smokers of the U.S. and other countries are known to ride brazenly in smoking cars, with intent to sniff tobacco fumes without expense and without twinge of conscience...