Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare and fearless publishers of anti-Nazi sheets are soon traced, not often heard from again. Cleverest ruse to defeat the omnipresent police has been to plug the rear end of a van with furniture, set up a print shop between that tier and the driver's seat, travel brazenly from, town to town turning out anti-Nazi propaganda. One such traveling paper, The Wanderer, was discovered last summer when it stuck in the mud, summoned another truck for succor...
...tried in small cities, he doubted if they could be economically justified. "Their cost will be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a mile in our larger cities, considering both construction costs and damages to abbutors, and then will be useful only to those having long distances to travel...
...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...
...American Airlines last week offered complimentary rides up to April 1 from Newark to Albany, Buffalo, Boston or Washington to wives accompanying holders of air-travel cards (yearly fare contracts requiring deposits), to enable wives "to learn at first hand how entirely safe you are when you travel by air." Promptly 48 wives accepted American's invitation...