Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mostly to State laws forbidding antelope hunting and to the creation by States and by the Federal Government of antelope refuges and ranges. Most important single refuge, because it contains the pronghorns' fawning grounds, is the region around Oregon's Hart Mountain. There mounted patrolmen travel over 276,000 acres of sagebrush inspecting the range, watch out for predatory animals and poachers...
Dark Rapture (Denis-Roosevelt). If there is anything more painfully familiar to followers of travel cinema than the spectacle of a group of African natives dressed in last week's laundry and chewing old twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other...
Last week was National Air Travel Week, staged by U. S. airlines to get more of the U. S. citizenry up in the air. Impressive were carefully-staged transport flying exhibitions, but the most thrilling demonstration was not on the schedule...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
...Typhoon. The difference is put down to Conrad's superior literary talents. Actually, hurricanes were fiercer in Conrad's day; that is to say, sailing ships ran into more of them. Modern steamers, tipped off by radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack...