Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great deal pleasanter to travel with respectable and well-behaved colored people," said the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier in 1885, "than with unmannerly and ruffianly white men." The doctrine of separate but equal spread outward from the western states of the South, however, until it gained the approval of the Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson...
Laurence H. Scott 1G, Mrs. Gaynor's only "contact" at the University, said that it would be "fair" for a college organization to invite her for a return engagement and, as she requested, to detray some of her travel expenses...
...years, said Guggenheim, he has been making aeronautical prophecies, and he has tended to err on the conservative side. In 1927, for instance, he predicted (with a good many escape clauses) that "in this generation in which we are living" commercial aircraft would travel at 300 m.p.h. "At that time," said Guggenheim, "I was branded a partisan and a visionary...
...scheduled flights if nonskeds started ganging up on the most profitable runs flown by big carriers. Said a CAB official: "This is a classic example of crying before you're hurt. The plain fact is that the nonskeds deserve a break. They were the pioneers in aircoach travel. Why should they be denied a chance to grow with the rest of the industry...
...days after Patrick B. McGinnis chided New Yorkers for "being satisfied to travel in the subways like pigs," homeward-bound commuters last week were packed like porkers into Grand Central Terminal (see cut), awaiting trains delayed more than two hours by a locomotive fire on McGinnis' New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail Road. The fire snarled 20 New Haven trains and 21 New York Central trains that use the same tracks into Grand Central. It was the latest and one of the longest New Haven delays since McGinnis won a heated proxy fight and took over the road...