Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wide, from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME, Sept...
...Pullman travel in 1929 took its worst slump in five years. Though the company operated more cars (8,842), more miles (1,206,767,059) than ever before the number of passengers (33,434,268) fell off 2,638,943 from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...
When the Graf Zeppelin flew the world last summer, air-minded U. S. financiers blinked interested eyes at the potentialities in lighter-than-air travel. Foremost among the blinkers was Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of National City Bank. While public excitement died down after the accomplishment of the Graf, he kept the financial pot simmering, aroused potent protagonists. In October 1929, International Zeppelin Transport Corp. was incorporated under the laws of Delaware...
Tomorrow 20 members of the squad with Coach Mitchell, three managers, and a rubber, will leave by boat for Norfolk, Virginia, whence they will travel to Williamsburg to start the spring schedule on Tuesday engaging William and Mary.S. L. Batchelder '31 and Charles Devens '32, the starting catcher and pitcher, respectively, for Harvard when it opens its season today...
With their usual featured program the Harvard Instrumental Clubs will travel to Swampscott tonight where they will be the drawing card at an entertainment sponsored by the Phillips Beach Neighborhood Club. Among the 54 men who will make the trip are F. S. Holmes '31, R. G. Edwards '31, and G. W. Briggs '31, who will give a joint speciaity number famous for Holmes' rendering of "When Nero Played His Fiddle...