Word: transportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ichabod possesses remarkable equanimity, which remains undisturbed until his path is crossed by the inevitable woman--the coquette Katrina. From then until his encounter with the Headless Horseman, he floats about on the screen in a transport of joy. As for the Horseman, he scared the pants off the kids at the RKO-Keith. More mature moviegoers will have no trouble in this respect...
...they found that the U. S. Consul General was a Harvard man, and were soon living in luxury at the Consulate. They were taken on guided tours of the city, and after a pleasant stay, they got a free flight back to Tri-zone in an empty air-lift transport. Another Harvard undergraduate with a flair for the lurid spent a weekend with the Salvador Dalis in Spain...
...York Yankees paid an estimated $40,000 to transport 215 pounds of first baseman across the Harlem River August 22. John Mize paid it all back in Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded pinch hit single that beat the Dodgers...
...whole dispute is removed to the realm of pure theory anyway by the fact that the States could, 'if they wanted, pay their basic expenses with federal funds and use as much of their own money as they wanted to transport children in buses. In other words arguing about the constitutionality of auxiliary aids is so much practice in governmental theory, and no more...
...London, 32 of the 60 airline members of IATA (International Air Transport Association) held a hurried meeting, worked out a temporary solution. From Oct. 1, until permanent rates are set, all transatlantic fares-both ways-will be at the $350 rate, thus setting a new rate in London of ?125. But from London eastward to Cairo, New Delhi, etc., fares will remain unchanged at their old rate in pounds, francs, etc. That meant that U.S. airlines will have to take as much as a 30% cut in dollar fares to compete. On the sea lanes, Britain's luxury liners...