Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went to the hearings armed with a set of recommendations designed to ease the railroads' ills. Among them: allow the railroads the full cost of carrying the U.S. mail, now carried at a loss; eliminate the 10% federal tax on passenger fares, passed during the war to discourage travel, and the 3% tax on freight; encourage railroad mergers; allow the roads to diversify more widely into other forms of transportation, such as trucks and planes. Said the Central's President Perlman: "If we fail to convince you of the desperate need to act now, if you fail...
Aeroflot pilots, though experienced, have won a daredevil reputation for going up in bird-walking weather. This can make for tough and treacherous travel, since they fly without electronic navigation aids in the back-country areas where airports are not equipped for instrument landings. What kind of safety record they have, no Westerner knows; Aeroflot does not announce crashes unless foreigners are on board. But there have been three crashes in the past three months alone that took 30 lives...
Every 15 miles another team measures the strength of gravitation, which gives clues about the earth's crust deep under the ice. Every 30 miles seismologists bore a hole in the ice and explode a charge of dynamite. Waves from the explosion travel to the bottom of the ice and into the rock beneath it. At each boundary between ice and rock or between layers of different rock, some of the waves are reflected up to the surface, and when they are recorded by the proper instruments they tell the scientists what they have found under the mile-thick...
...Capital Airlines for January-March period. Capital has been paying $1,000,000 a month on $70 million debt for its 60 Vickers Viscount turboprops. But company lost about $2,000,000 on its 1957 operations because of rising costs, got payments delay to tide it over slack winter-travel season...
...announcing the new professorship, President Pusey noted that both at Harvard and in Boston are libraries and collections of Oriental art which attract scholars from all over the world. He expected that the occupant of the new chair would make significant contributions at a time when travel to the Far East is limited...