Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...services to 600 ports in 120 foreign lands. It does not need tramps. It does not need superliners-("The American Merchant Marine is a service proposition"). Overseas air lines, over which the Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called...
...program in Manhattan were 27 novelists, 18 critics, ten poets, 19 journalists and political commentators, ten scientific writers, three authors of travel books, two biographers, four preachers, six publishers, four authors of garden books, one artist, 28 assorted authors and illustrators of children's books, one humorist, one cabinet member, one university chancellor and one ranee...
...books. Stokes thought so little of Beau Geste that it did not copyright the book. The first edition of The Story of Philosophy was 1,500 copies, was only printed after a bookseller promised to take 500 copies. The Story of San Michele was first listed as a travel book and only 500 copies imported from England...
...fatigue," the release reads, "that causes a driver to doze for a moment, or, through inattention, fail to note a vehicle that has come to a stop just ahead in the same laue of travel. But it is speed, often increasing under these circumstances, that results in the fatal crash...
...Because, answers Mr. Lippmann, existing markets are ruthless regulators. This was insufficiently appreciated by the nineteenth century economists, but not by the author of "The Good Society." He realizes that the profits of business are not merely earnings due to ability and foresight; he realizes that laborers cannot travel from place to place to seek new opportunities. He recognizes the "paradoxes of poverty and plenty, democracy and insecurity, interdependence and imperialism, legal equality and social inequality, enlightenment and degradation...