Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennypacker will not take a long trip this year as he has often done. Last year he was away on a three week tour which carried him as far as Atlanta and on which he spoke in schools of the principal southern cities...
...surgeons journeyed last week from their homes to attend the impending convention of the Pan-American Medical Association at Panama City. Simultaneously five others, assembled at Miami, did something unusual, eminently practical. They loaded surgical equipment into two Pan American Airways' planes, started a 6,808-mi. tour of Caribbean countries, as the first "Flying Clinic." Their work will be to demonstrate latest U. S. surgical and medical practices to Latin American doctors who are unable to attend the Panama convention...
...tunnel. Begun in 1923, completed in 1928, the tunnel cost the city of Denver and certain nearby counties $15,470,000 to build. A special ventilating plant (forced draft for eastbound trains, induced draft for westbound) keeps the six-mile stretch clear of smoke. Expensive and well ventilated engineering tour de force though it is, the Moffat tunnel is little used. Few trains go puffing through it because there are no traffic centres beyond it more important than Craig, Oak Creek, Steamboat Springs (pop. 1,000). After passing through the tunnel, the Denver & Salt Lake ends at Craig, Col., without...
...King Nagapate's cannibals in the Big Numbers Territory, next day went inland to see the cannibal village. No longer friendly, Nagapate's men seized them and were getting ready to eat them when, in the manner long familiar to adventure fiction, a British man-of-war on regular tour-of-inspection swung into the harbor, lowered a boat...
...Distinguished Flying Cross, announced last week his resignation as Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, to become director of aviation for Shell Petroleum Corp. On leave of absence from the Army, Doolittle lately completed a 7,200-mi. roundtrip flight for the city of New York, making a research tour of airports throughout the land. His entry into commercial flying is not abrupt. For ten years has Flyer Doolittle been a 1st Lieutenant, total pay-$4,800 per year. Service with Shell Petroleum will more than triple that income...