Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homeric (Britain's "Ship of Splendor"). "I shall carry my pounds home with me! A bit high this, something of a holdup, what?" From London the international firm of Thomas Cook & Son circularized the British Isles with a doleful announcement that the fall of the pound had upped travel costs to Britons 20%, advised holidays at British resorts, cruises on British ships where a pound is still a pound. Norman Home, The pound being where it is, can bearded Montagu Collet Norman, eleven times Governor of the Bank of England (TIME, May 4), continue to hold that helm...
...Last week Pioneer Bleriot offered a trophy bearing his name to anyone maintaining a speed of 400 m.p.h. for a half hour on land, water, or in the air. The first person to travel 650 m.p.h. would have permanent possession...
...North Shore. There, in an all, fresco theatre amidst a sylvan park, stars from the Metropolitan and other leading companies sing nightly before large audiences. Ravinia is about 20 miles from Chicago, but the perfection of the music and the beauty of its setting lead thousands to travel there regularly by motor or train...
Twenty-three of the awards are made for travel abroad. Six research fellowships in the Law School; with a total value of $15,750, were announced as follows: the Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship to B. H. Pollitt of Newark, N. J.; the Sidney Thompson Fairchild Fellowship to P. E. Bryan, of Emery University, Georgia; the Brandies Research Fellowship to A. L. Harding, of Dallas, Texas; and three unnamed research fellowships in the school, to P. A. Freund, of St. Louis, Missouri; G. V. Head of Columbia, Missouri; and J. J. Smith, Jr., of Meridian, Mississippi...
...offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial manager of the company's business in Canada. He became part owner and vice president of Raymond & Whitcomb Co.. travel agents, and then assistant to President Seward Prosser in Liberty National Bank. At 34 he was president of Liberty National. In the War he served under Morgan Partner Henry Pomeroy Davison as general manager of the American Red Cross in 1917 and Red Cross Commissioner for France in 1918, for Europe...