Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...travel in the subway. It's very cheap, honest...
Fancies & Dogma. His literary career began at Oxford with a book of verse, but he made his name as a walker. He tramped across the Alps from Lorraine to Rome, and his exuberant, youthful Path to Rome is a little classic of exhibitionist travel. For the next half-century, essays, history, epigrams, satires, fiction poured from his pen, sometimes at the rate of five volumes a year...
...spite of grumblings about slow appliance sales, General Electric reported a whopping $1,560,448,000 in sales for the first six months, an alltime high. Net profit for the period, said President Ralph J. Cordiner, was up 32% to $75,417,000. American Airlines profits, reflecting the air travel boom, rose from $5,099,000 in the first half of last year to $6,658,000, President C. R. Smith reported...
RAILROADER Robert Young's "Train X," the low-slung, speedy (up to 150 m.p.h.) train which Young thinks will cut costs drastically and transform passenger travel, will soon be built. The train will have shorter cars, a far lower center of gravity than conventional trains. To build it, Young's Chesapeake & Ohio is teaming up with the New York Central, which is 10% owned by the C. & O. The deal is the first evidence of cooperation between C. & O. and the Central, in which Bob Young thinks he should have a directorship...
...Travel Credit. To speed up railroad ticket purchases, a charge-plate credit card system was started by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway so that tickets can be charged by mail or wire...