Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enright is an authority on the building of cinder and board tracks, and he has been consulted by many athletic associations in this country. This summer he will travel to Ireland where he will advise on the construction of several tracks by the government...
World's biggest bargain in rail travel is the 25-mi. ride to be had for 5? on New York City's subways. Nevertheless, many a skinflint succeeds in cheating the companies out of his fare by using slugs in the automatic turnstiles. Last week New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass...
...company, who has made a practice of investing $20 in every sweepstakes she has heard about, with no success whatever. Informed that Bahram had won, Mrs. Hyman revealed that she had sold a half interest in her ticket for $40,000. Said she: "I'd certainly like to travel on that big ship, Normandie...
With threats of Government ownership, increased competition from automobiles, buses, airlines, and a steady decline in passenger traffic, the railroads pulled themselves together, struck back with airconditioning, streamlining, high speeds, lower fares (TIME, May 13). The problem was not so much to popularize travel or sell individual tours as to make rail-riding look attractive once more. To do that job, 26 railroads and Pullman Co. combined for the first time in a joint institutional advertising campaign which comes to a climax next week with Railroad Week...
Admen have been trying lately to get Eastern roads to work together in a similar "travel-by-rail" campaign, but up to last week competitive bitterness was too strong. Individual Eastern advertisements, however, follow the new trend. New York Central enticingly depicts a Repeal club-car scene ("There's more to the 20th Century than 17-hour speed"). Sauciest 1935 copy was published by up-&-coming Chesapeake & Ohio: a honeymoon couple in a lower berth, captioned "Here you are, Conductor-the certificate and two tickets on The George Washington...