Word: round-the-world
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...president, William A. Patterson, whimsically defined as nothing more than a 2,400-mile extension of his domestic trans continental route. They now asked for an Alaskan route in addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...
...Cairo he found the five U.S. Senators (Mead, Brewster, Lodge, Russell, Chandler) who made a round-the-world inspection junket last year. "Why," moaned Coward, "when there are so many millions of delightful Americans . . . should such an uninspiring group of men be sent on an overseas mission? . . . Oh, my God, they were dull...
...groom smiled ecstatically and told reporters: "I assure you that it was love at first sight . . . love at first sight." Then amateur Sportsman James H. R. Cromwell and his bride, the former Doris Duke, boarded the Italian liner Conte di Savoia, sailed romantically away on an eight-month, round-the-world honeymoon. That...
...parson. On leave before the war, he used to live with his wife and his Lhasa terriers at their comfortable Carmel, Calif, home, playing golf, fishing, talking incessantly, growing roses, reading Conrad through gold-rimmed spectacles and dreaming of the day when he would retire and take a round-the-world cruise aboard a freighter. To his colleagues (who know how to use monosyllables respectfully) he is known as "a mean son-of-a-bitch...
...Some of them, Washington rumor said, put their best hatchet men to work to kill it. But stubborn Mr. Kaiser somehow salvaged a small Government contract from the battle. Turned down everywhere in the industry, he promptly went to work with lanky Howard Robard Hughes, movie maker, oilman, round-the-world flyer and aeronautical engineer. They planned to turn out three super-colossal planes of Hughes's own design...