Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixteen days, 19 hours, 4 minutes after leaving New York, Widow Adams was back again. She had flown all the way. Total mileage: 25,000. Cost: $2,500. Chortled she: "That's ten cents a mile. Can you travel cheaper than that...
...comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted by the further thought that in sharing his nostalgia and making mysterious Tibet as real to Englishmen, and hardly more remote, than the Scottish Highlands, he had written easily the best travel book of the year...
...month following this Neutrality Act Italy invaded Ethiopia. There was no declaration of hostilities, but three days after fighting began, the President called it a war. He invoked the Act and solemnly warned U. S. citizens not to travel on either Italian or Ethiopian liners. No arms were shipped to either side...
...Albania at Istanbul, Turkey, Zog recently decided to transfer his home to France. Shortest and quickest route from Istanbul to Paris would have been by rail on either the Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side of which is the toe of the Italian boot, on the other Sicily. Both are uncomfortably close...
...Fred Dankowske, a footloose youngster from Chicago, drifted to booming Salt Lake City. There he made a real-estate killing, fell in love with pretty Mary Alice Robins, who shared his passion for travel and scenery. On their honeymoon Mr. & Mrs. Dankowske clopped north to Yellowstone Park in a horse and wagon...