Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other countries have instituted 'tourist money' and 'tourist privileges' while France has offered a premium to French tourist agencies to get tourists to travel in other countries!" cried M. Gaston-Gérard. "Our railway travel costs nearly twice as much as in Great Britain. The price of gasoline in France is prohibitive and tourists no longer bring their cars. While other countries make tourists welcome we start taxing them as soon as they disembark...
Newest wrinkle in Soviet travel is the appearance in droves of foreign tourists born in Russia who at last have plucked up enough courage to go and see what their native village is like today. Mostly naturalized in the U. S., they travel 3,500 miles to exclaim "What a dump!" In Soviet hotels guests are offered such strange alternatives as "You can have with your dinner either caviar or a fresh vegetable or ice cream...
...travel over Europe I am more than ever impressed with the seriousness of the situation which confronts us. When I see that within a day or two damage can be done which no time ever can replace, I begin to realize we must look for a new type of security, a security which is dynamic, not static-a security which rests in intelligence not in forts. And in the fact that intelligence must be combined with aviation I find some cause for hope. It requires more intellect to operate an airplane than to dig a trench or shoot a rifle...
When at last the soldiers in the ranks refused to fight, Chen knew he was beaten. He told Chiang, through an emissary, that he would quit if Chiang would give him a high-sounding title under which he could honorably travel abroad. That night his Second Kwangtung Army having surrendered, Chen scuttled to a British gunboat, headed for British Hongkong where he has a tidy investment in real estate...
...bridge can handle 57,000 vehicles per 12-hr, day. First 24 hours the bridge was opened last week 50,000 automobiles crossed over. In the next twelve hours 50.000 more crossed. Motorists paid 25? toll per car, trucks up to 75?. Passenger cars were compelled to travel 40 m.p.h. across the bridge. Fifteen minutes sufficed to cover distances which heretofore required well over an hour through narrow streets and over older bridges. Immediate result of the Triborough's opening: a 30% drop in traffic across the older East River bridges between Manhattan and Long Island on which...