Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Completed this year at a cost of $1 billion, the Thruway has proved so popular that the first sections opened in 1954 netted $7,000,000 in tolls on 522 million miles of travel. This year the completed road will take in three times that amount. In his new $20,000-a-year job, which he plans to start early next year, Tallamy will be responsible for one of the most ambitious single public-works projects in history-41,000 miles of superhighways as well as hundreds of miles of spur and connecting roads stretching into every corner...
Approximately $200 of the appropriation will go directly to NSA, while almost $400 is earmarked for travel expenses to the national convention...
...travel expenses incurred by cheerleaders will be met this year "as usual," Caroll F. Getchell, Business Manager of the Department of Athletics said yesterday, denying reports that a shortage of funds was causing unrest among the cheerleaders...
...urge to travel hit Parrish early. By the time he graduated from high school in his native Decatur, Ill., he had hitchhiked through all the Eastern and Southern states. He thumbed his way to New York to study at the Columbia University School of Journalism, where he won a Pulitzer fellowship that gave him a year of third-class travel from the Arctic Circle to Spanish Morocco...
...love to move.'' says Parrish. "In New York I set out to walk up and down every avenue and across every side street in Manhattan. I never finished, but I covered a good deal of it. I also set out to travel every mile of the subway, but I never finished that either. But I have traveled in every state in the U.S. and visited every state capital.'' Parrish's current goal is to land at every U.S. airport served by a scheduled airline. His score: 505, with...