Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...
More than a million gallons of Dowell inhibitive acids go into 400 wells every month under the direction of 74 Dowell "acid doctors," trained petroleum and chemical engineers and geologists. Dowell's 201 pieces of automotive equipment travel 200,000 miles each month...
...side-whiskers go together in the memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
There is no good reason why the President of the U. S. should travel to far parts of the U. S. to bury his followers, but politicians are particular about funerals. Moreover, President Roosevelt had traveled far to bury Speakers Rainey and Byrns, Secretary of War Dern and his own personal Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. His decision a few hours after loyal Joe Robinson's death not to go to the funeral at Little Rock was not liked by a good many Congressmen. They said nothing publicly, but when he stepped out before the funeral with his "message...
...stock picture of a Japanese traveler is an immaculate, youthful-looking, polite, poker-faced Oriental who goes about with a small, expensive camera taking photographs of fortifications, air fields and the like, collects trade secrets, lets nothing escape his foxy eyes, but rarely writes a travel book. Travel books by Japanese women are even rarer. Japanese Lady in Europe, the travel diary of a sort of Japanese Provincial Lady calling herself merely "a chatterbox," fits none of these specifications. Aside from its interest as the work of a Japanese observer, readers will find its pert, oblique commentaries on travel-worn...