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Unlike its predecessors, Holiday appears unconcerned whether readers contemplate a six-month voyage to the other side of the world, or a weekend in a battered Ford to the nearest trout stream or football game. It seems less interested in telling where to go than in suggesting what to do upon getting there. Also new is Holiday's willingness to poke fun at the grimly thorough tourist...
...miles this June, a drop of 6,320,943,000 as against June 1929. A "net ton mile" is accomplished every time one ton of freight is carried one mile. The June drop in ton miles was 15.5% compared to 1929, while the six-month average was only 11% under...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
...viceroy's decree making "picketing" a crime punishable by six-month imprisonment (TIME, June 9) was being flagrantly disobeyed. Weeks ago the Bombay police, engulfed by hundreds of thousands of Gandhites and under orders not to fire, became virtually helpless. Soldiers would now be tried. Marching out of their barracks at Poona-near which St. Gandhi remained imprisoned-a battalion 1,000 strong, half British, half native, entrained last week for Bombay with all the paraphernalia of war: rifles, machine guns, armored cars...
Last week appeared Mr. Parlin's analysis of the aviation industry, based on a six-month, 20,387-mi. flying survey of the land. "Conservatively" predicted Researcher Parlin...