Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argued over their Scotch & sodas-about the Third Term, the merits of Roosevelt and Willkie, the size and meaning of the crowds, the effect of Willkie on them-until their voices grew hoarse with contention, as the candidate's grew husky with campaigning. Tired after eleven days of travel, variously afflicted with colds and indigestion, the wisecracks all laughed at, the arguments all heard before, they were in no mood for history. If they were halfway through one of the greatest political stories in the long record of the U. S., they did not want to hear about...
...lubricating oil, 15 live steers, a large stock of fresh vegetables and a "lot of miscellaneous stuff." Her clearance papers were not in order. Mexican officials, who thought that the vessel was headed either for a supply rendezvous at sea, or for Vladivostok, whence the stocks would travel across Russia to Germany, admitted "stunning surprise" that a Canadian vessel should be operating in the Pacific and so far south...
...touch opener this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, Eliot House meets Adams, prying the lid off a season that will run until November 15, followed by a climax game in which the first place winners travel to New Haven to meet the Yale champions. Other touch games this week include Dudley vs. Winthrop tomorrow, Lowell vs. Dunster on Wednesday and Leverett vs. Kirkland on Thursday...
...series of four shows. Once again Friend Carnegie was helpful in getting the material into shape, and presently Thomas headed for England, where he wowed the Britishers with his tales of Lawrence in Arabia, Allenby in Palestine. So popular was the Lawrence show that Thomas was able to travel round the world with it, assign Carnegie and lesser vocal lights to handle four second-string companies in England. Altogether, Thomas delivered "With Lawrence in Arabia" over 4,000 times, to over 3,000,000 people, made over a million dollars from it. By product from his lecture was the book...
...seven years and began to expand. First he bought up the old Peter Cooper Corp., whose famed founder, a New York philanthropist (Cooper Union), was a glue pioneer. By 1930 he had bought competitors in Chicago, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Hammond, Ind., Springdale, Pa. and Brantford, Ont. He hated travel so much that he never spent a night in a Pullman car. So Gowanda became the U. S. glue capital...