Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year 66 million Americans, riding in 22 million automobiles, will take to the highways (most of them this month and next), traveling an average 1,200 miles in eleven vacation days, staying at 50,000 motor courts, and spend $10 billion as they go. The superhighways they will travel are a far cry from the primitive roads that Lieut. Eisenhower and his companions bumped along 35 years ago, but they are still inadequate to the times and to the nation's needs, and growing more so every year. Last week, in recognition of that fact, Dwight Eisenhower proposed...
Budget Plan. Meal tickets for dining in some of Italy's best restaurants at a fixed price of $3.75 went on sale in travel agencies. Each coupon entitles a tourist to a complete dinner with entertainment and tips (drinks extra) in any of 23 listed restaurants in Rome. Palermo, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Turin, Venice and Viareggio...
Most of the new wealth is still skimmed off the top by sheiks, who live well and proliferate, raising sons who travel not by camel but by air-conditioned Cadillac...
Five years later, Boeing's team of Egtvedt, Beall and Wells flew its famed 74-passenger 314 flying boat (the "Clipper"), designed for the first regular transatlantic runs. Then they built another four-engined airliner, the "Stratoliner," the first transport with a pressurized cabin for high-altitude travel. Boeing built 22 Stratoliners and 314s. But the planes, expensive to operate, and complicated challenges to airline maintenance crews, did not sell in quantity. Boeing lost a total of $4,500,000 on its twin giants and found itself in financial trouble...
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP travel is setting alltime records. At the midyear mark liners have already carried 367,000 passengers (v. 352,000 at mid-1953). Bookings indicate some 930,000 will sail by year's end. Air travel is also up about...