Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington...
...recent airing of the executive department's dirty linen takes a prominent part in this report. Large sums spent on luncheons, executive travel, and office supplies have been explained away by the Governor's secretary as justifiable, since used in spreading "hope and joy among the people." The people has indicated that it will no longer stand for such mummery. The lieutenant-governor's office-assistance appropriation was at zero for one hundred and fifty years, but in 1930 possibilities of treasure accruing to this post were discovered, and for 1936 $7100 is requested in the budget. It is suggested...
...other excuse can be found except the legislators wish to help their friends and constituents. Such a typical parasite's paradise is the lately conceived board of regulation for hair-dressers, which starts its career with a request for $18,000 for personal services, and $13-800 for travel--for the thirteen members of the board...
Rate Reduction. The I.C.C. based its order cutting the base rate from 3.6? per mile and eliminating Pullman surcharges, on the theory that railway passenger travel, decimated by the automobile, would be partially restored by the lower fare, and that the extra volume of traffic would more than compensate for the lower rate. The I.C.C. declared that since 1926, railroads in general have made no money on passengers, that they lost $200,000,000 a year on passenger traffic in 1931, 1932 and 1933. I.C.C. figures showed that in 1922 the railroads carried 537,000,000 passengers, in 1934 they...
...pelvic eugenic floor to reasons such prevent as a birth of recurrence; 7) eugenic reasons such as birth of a defective child or parental feeblemindedness; 8) suicidal tendencies; 9) economic reasons in women of high fertility; 10) previous postpartum infection; 11) co existing malignant disease; 12) necessity of travel to remote regions where pregnancy cannot be properly cared for." In addition: "While our own laws and those of other countries do not as a rule recognize rape or extreme youth as indications for abortion, we as physicians, knowing the harmful mental or physical effects produced by a pregnancy in such...