Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BANG! BANG! BANG! (revolver shots), "Racket! Racket! Racket! . . . You have been taken for a ride and don't know it. . . . Forced to pay hard-earned pennies for something that can be bought for half. . . . I want to help you stop being a victim of this racket. . . . If anyone tells you not to come and see me and learn how I can save you money, then that person is protecting his own interests. He is in cahoots with the billion-dollar insurance companies...
...lesson in economics. Last week the Eastern roads tacitly admitted that they had learned something from it. Mr. Williamson's committee plumped for lower rates and bigger volume-with a hedge. The Western roads which have profited by low fares have comparatively long passenger hauls. (Average passenger ride on Union Pacific: 560.89 miles. Average on New York Central: 57.85 miles.) So the Eastern roads plan to scale their fares down to encourage longer rides...
Rest Day. At Banff for one day King George and Queen Elizabeth could relax. Dressed in sports clothes they drove about, peeked at peaks, climbed a small mountain, photographed a deer and a cub bear, took a ride in an old-fashioned buckboard, dined on fresh trout caught by Lord-in-Waiting Lord Eldon, and chatted with correspondents in the evening...
...little town of Lerdo, he attended Mexican schools, crossed the U. S. border to get a degree at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, went to an automobile school in Kansas City, worked at the Buick plant in Michigan. In 1926 he took a $3 ride with a barnstormer. Next day Pancho started flying lessons and he has never been out of flying for more than three months since. He ran a flying school in Mexico, became President Cárdenas' personal pilot-and Cárdenas has never since flown with anyone else...
...once president. They bought 6,000 shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because the registration statement failed to mention options on the stock given to underwriters...