Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...
Five students who graduated from Harvard College with highest honors in June have been awarded prize fellowships totalling $6,800 for travel abroad during the coming year...
...people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have to turn out only once to hear all the candidates. To enter such a Democratic primary, each & every candidate binds himself to obey the party...
...regions held by the Government last week, to travel behind the front lines was to be stopped every few miles by men or women bristling with arms but too ignorant to read the passports and documents which they threateningly demanded. In Madrid one of the Government's official passers-out-of-arms, Commandant Carlos Gomez, cheerfully announced: "We are training 1,000 people a day and sending them to all fronts...
PEOPLE, PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!-R. H. (Bob) Davis-Stokes ($3). Travel notes of a columnist that range from brief impressions written in Mexico and South Africa to scribblings in an airplane over California, and include anecdotes about Artemus Ward, discussions of the Regency of George IV and English rule of India...