Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bargain U. S. Lines stuffed $150,000 worth of improvements inside the Leviathan last spring and puffed her out across the Atlantic with some special advertising. By the time she had made the first round trip she had lost $143,000. Last week, at the peak of the travel season, she completed her fifth round trip less than half full. President P. A. S. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine, which controls operation of U. S. Lines, immediately announced that this money-losing monster's next stop would be its Hoboken morgue...
...Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842 in Boston, and after attending Phillips Andover Academy for two years entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864 he went to the Salem High School as sub-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health. In 1870, President Eliot appointed him instructor in Greek, which was at that time prescribed for Freshman. In 1872 he was appointed instructor in Philosophy, and in 1873 become assistant professor. In 1883 he assumed the Alford chair in which position he remained until, after 42 years...
...Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel to the U. S. reaches its peak. By last week the Manhattan, the lie de France, the Majestic, the Aqui tania, the Bremen, Enropa, many a lesser ship had landed some 15,000, most of whom were not averse to sharing their views with their stay-at-home countrymen...
...effect, a pool of copyrights. Since no individual composer could be expected to travel all over the nation listening for infringements of his copyrights, A. S. C. A. & P. does it for him, collects all monies due into its own coffers. Four times a year this money is distributed on a percentage basis to the society's members. Members are rated according to the length of their membership, the popularity of their songs, their prestige. Irving Berlin ("Easter Parade"), Carrie Jacobs-Bond ("A Perfect Day"), George Gershwin ("Rhapsody in Blue"), Jerome Kern ("OP Man River"), the estate of Victor Herbert...
...Perry has been three times around the world. He has 50 tennis trophies, including spears and shields from Africa. He smokes a pipe, never drinks. He drives a car cautiously, avoids travel by plane. Slightly ashamed of his skill at table tennis, he now plays only onboard ship. He plays tennis eight months every year, does not practice before a match because it does his game no good. His fiancee is British Cinemactress Mary Lawson, a onetime tap dancer, who is 5 ft. tall, wears size 2 shoes, plays no tennis at all. Last week she was at Shepherd...