Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct contrast were the events of last week. Scarcely had Mr. Hearst arrived at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, after a month of travel in Germany and Italy's lake country, when an officer of the Sûreté Général (Secret Service) visited him with a request from the Ministry of Interior to vacate the country within 36 hours. Publisher Hearst spurned the day's grace, took the afternoon boat-train for London. Next day the French Premier explained that the expulsion had its origin in the famed Horan affair...
...Again, Hawks. By moonlight, Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks's red-&-white Travel Air Texaco 13 whizzed off the runway of Glendale Airport, Los Angeles, last week, hurdled the San Bernardino mountains, shot across the Mojave Desert to greet the rising sun, roared into Albuquerque in 3 hr. 26 min. The speed indicator clung close to 250 m.p.h. as the low-winged bullet tore eastward to Wichita. Next came a mid-afternoon stop at Indianapolis and then, three hours later, Curtiss Airport, Valley Stream L. I.-a new transcontinental record...
...Assistant Secretary Young a bright picture was presented by the transport lines. Said he: "Those that render a service clearly advantageous in time over other means of travel, or which advantageously augment surface transportation, are doing a satisfactory business...
...Eastern daylight-saving time). Grinning, he greeted his father at Los Angeles Municipal Airport at 4:50:43 p.m. (Pacific standard time), too weary for golf but with a new east-west transcontinental record. It was the first such flight ever made in full daylight. The plane was the Travel Air Mystery S, low-wing monoplane, powered with a supercharged Wright Whirlwind engine (TIME, Feb. 24). Elapsed time, including fuel stops at Columbus, St. Louis, Wichita, Albuquerque, and Kingman was 14 hr. 50 min. 43 sec.-faster by 3 hr. 52 min. than the record set three months...
Direct utilization of the airways by the two rail companies might take two aspects: the speeding of travel along principal trunk lines by combined air-&-rail service, and the operation of air lines where it is not practicable to build branch roads...