Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternatives confronting the conferees were: 1) to restrict travel by cutting down schedules or 2) to increase travel by cutting down rates. They took the latter course, announced a cut beginning Aug. 17 of from 10% to 30% in first-class rates, of 13% in third-class rates. In shipping circles it was rumored that the cut had been practically forced by the British, who had threatened a rate war against the French and German lines. Oldsters recalled that in 1904 British and German steamship companies competed so bitterly for immigrant trade that one could travel from Great Britain...
...only give it such courteous and fair treatment that it will want to ride. The railroads come back? They haven't been any where. The only reason railroad business is bad is because all kinds of business is bad. . . . The railroads never will get back the travel constantly turning to private automobiles. The public likes to ride in its own car. But when business is good again, the railroads will be in business as inevitably as ever...
...Charles Gates Dawes, in charge of the 1933 World's Fair finances, announced that of the $10,000,000 land issue authorized, $6,555,000 had been sold without corporate guarantees. About $1,000,000 more have been sold with such guarantees. Already constructed are the Administration and Travel & Transportation Buildings and a replica of Fort Dearborn. The Mayan Temple and the General Motors building will probably be started this year...
...into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer French exports and travel to France by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique in greater quantities and more often...
...There are then cricket, fireworks, a parade of crews costumed as 18th Century sailors, and from the river the sounds of the famed Eton Boating Song. Because this is the school's gala day, Old Etonians the world over celebrate it with alumni dinners. In India one might travel 1,000 miles and dine with a score of local governors, all Old Etonians, wearing cravats of black striped with pale blue. In Manhattan this month 20 Old Etonians assembled in honor of Speech Day. The day before was the birthday of His Majesty King George V. But Eton does...