Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long Road. Despite the House's headlined performance this tax legislation still had a long road to travel before final enactment. This week the Senate Finance Committee was to start unscrambling the House bill. Because most Senators are highly opinionated on taxation, the committee will undoubtedly do much revising and rewriting. Later this month the measure will be solemnly escorted to the Senate floor by Utah's Smoot. There another protracted demonstration of tax juggling will ensue before the bill is finally passed weeks later. Next will come the inter-chamber conference at which Senators and Congressmen will haggle over...
Announced in Manhattan was a 20% cut in all classes of passage aboard the three large U. S. Liners (Leviathan, President Harding, President Roosevelt), plus a further reduction on de luxe accommodations, plus elimination of the increased rates for summer travel. Competing lines immediately met the issue. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line), Canadian Pacific, White Star. Red Star, Atlantic Transport and Cunard (which has been agitating for reductions since last year's report showed a ?533,000 net loss) cut prices in all classes an average of 20%. The newly consolidated...
...Junkers. It may be on the radiator in your hotel room; on the locomotive of your train (it may have been in the engine room of the steamer which took you there); under the hood of your motorbus; on the hot water tap in your bathroom. If you travel by airline anywhere in Europe the odds are 2-to-1 that the name of Junkers is on your plane. Last week the Junkers name was in world-wide headlines. The Junkers Aircraft Company was on the verge of receivership...
...tried to cut me. I threw her down and took.the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. . . . Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. I went to horse and made horse travel fast away from...
...from Italy (some 4,500 mi.) Arturo Toscanini will travel next month to conduct in Manhattan a single concert for the benefit of unemployed musicians. The news put Philharmonic subscriptions back at a premium last week. Ordinary reassurance had failed to down the rumor that he might never return...