Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure just what price Lewis had exacted in terms of hourly wage increases for his miners. The United Mine Workers said 35?; the operators said closer to 45?. The arithmetic was complicated by changing the $11.85 nine-hour day to a $13.05 eight-hour day (including an hour to travel from the mine portal to the face of the working and back, and a new half-hour lunch period). The arithmetic was further complicated by doubling the royalty paid into the miners' health & welfare fund to 110? a ton (between $50 and $60 million a year...
...those who travel fortune's road...
Summing up the airplane's anti-human aspects in a weighty book (Human Factors in Air Transport Design; McGraw-Hill; $6), Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes, for all their silvery slickness and speed, are still dangerous, noisy, uncomfortable and a generally unsatisfactory means of travel...
Mather joined Brooks in eliminating ice particles or the light reflections from them as the source of the plates. He noted that ice masses or cold air fronts do not travel at the 2000 miles per hour rate which many observers attribute to the discs...
...miles above the earth. Then it will coast upward to 237 miles before its momentum is exhausted. Its greatest speed coming down will be 8,200 ft. per second (4,833 m.p.h.). Maximum pay load: one ton. The Navy does not estimate publicly how far the rocket will travel horizontally. Since it rises nearly twice as high as the V2, it may be expected to exceed the V-2's 230-mile range...