Word: traveled
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...foot. Dogs and lawn sprinklers are their main occupational hazards. They cover around ten miles on foot in an average day, have no use for timetables, spend as much-or as little-time as they wish in each town. Although they are well heeled, the Gills live and travel modestly: whenever possible, they look for a place with cooking facilities, and Dorothea Gill prepares the family meals...
HELICOPTER TRAVEL will get a boost from New York Airways and Belgium's Sabena Airlines. Inter-airport traffic in the New York area is growing so fast that N.Y.A., now operating five helicopters, will order seven new twelve-passenger, 105-m.p.h. Sikorsky S-58 whirlybirds, double its annual passenger capacity. To expand its local helicopter service between eight European cities (TIME, May 16), Sabena will order eight new Sikorskys...
Spare the Rod. Historian Davis has unearthed some strange phrenological lore. There was, for instance, the man who picked horses by studying the shape of their skulls. Horace Greeley suggested that in the interests of safe train travel, brakemen should have the right-shaped head. There was even phrenological housing: Orson Fowler had built a mansion in the shape of an octagon, which started quite a fashion for octagonal houses...
Point V. In the current year U.S. travel has skyrocketed as never before, increasing by an estimated $200 million in just twelve months. Reed calls such spending abroad the new Point V, "the economic power of the American people directed to overseas nations through tourism." He estimates that U.S. travelers last year furnished foreign governments with more than twice as many dollars as did the U.S. Government through economic aid; and closed 10% of the foreign dollar...
...travel increase has also meant peak profits ($4,685,000 last year) for 105-year-old American Express as well. In the past decade the company expanded more than it did in its previous 95 years-growing from 50 offices to 343 in 36 countries. This year alone, American Express has opened or enlarged twelve branches, from Istanbul to Honolulu to Houston...