Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard Air Line into Florida. Nor do the northern transcontinentals apply an extra fare for travel on their limited trains. Most famed of these, all making the Chicago-Seattle run in 63 hours, are the Great Northern's Empire Builder, the Northern Pacific's North Coast Limited, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific's Olympian...
...Traveling. E. Hamilton Lee, Boeing air mail pilot, last week logged his 1,250,000th flying mile. He is the first flyer to travel so far. Last week he was 37½ years old. If he had walked four miles every hour since he was two and able to romp, not yet would he have trod 1,250,000 miles. 170 Passengers, greatest air load ever, flew for 100 miles over Lake Constance, Switzerland, on a trial flight of the 12-motored Dornier DO-X. Football Specials. Colonial Air Transport last week decided to operate special planes to Boston...
...Coward will open "Bitter-Sweet" in New York City the first week of November. Then he will travel around the world until next May when he expects to return to New York to play in a new production...
...physical condition would prevent his going, but Captain Ernst Lehmann, who piloted the airship on her last trans-Atlantic voyage, would lead. Half the crew, remembering the wreck of Explorer Mobile's Italia, refused to endure the anticipated arctic hardships, dangers. Captain Lehmann refused to travel with the newly trained men he would be obliged to hire...
British Dirigible. Five years ago the British government decided to build two experimental dirigibles, the R-100 (709 ft. long) and the R-101 (730 ft. long), both huger than the Graf Zeppelin. Purpose of construction was to prove that airships would be useful to travel between the widely separated British dominions. In anticipation mooring masts have been built at Cardington, England (where the R-100 was put together), at Ismailia, Egypt, Karachi, India (where there is a hangar), Groutville, South Africa, and St. Hubert, Canada. As both ships were nearing completion this summer, dire were the prophecies that they...