Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked if he is the first person from his planet to travel in space, he replies...
...expedition plans to start from Stony Rapids on Lake Athabaska in northern Alberta, and will then travel north via the Dubawnt River to Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay, 20 miles south of the Arotic Circle...
Both group travel and package tours are booming. Stenographers, farmers, mountain climbers are banding together to book their own special excursions. In Manhattan 25 photographers will take off in July for a 30-day picture-taking swing through Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, five other countries; a group of 100 congressional secretaries will sail in midsummer to escape Washington's heat. Last December American Express offered 19 Banner Tours to Europe (42 days for $1,225 to $1,645), sold them out by February, had to add more to meet the demand. Its de luxe student tours (54 days...
...airlines' installment-plan vacation (10% down, up to 20 months to pay) is bringing in new customers every day. Some travel managers object on the ground that it requires more paperwork and hurts future business. Said one Chicago agent: "If you buy a car by installments, you've got something to look at and use. Once you've taken a vacation, you've got nothing left but a memory." But Pan American, by pushing its installment plan, boosted sales $4,200,000 last year, expects that it will top $7,000,000 (6% of all business...
Whatever the cost or inconvenience of a European trip, many an American feels that it is something he has to have. Says a Cunard official: "The travel industry has now become as big as General Motors. These days, if a person has a car and a washing machine, he has to have a trip to Europe...