Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before long Fran had collected a flattering group of carpet knights, and while Sam "ran over" to Zenith for a disillusioning visit, Fran succumbed to the blandishments of an Austrian Jew. Sam forgave her, but made her "travel," only to discover that "if there is anything worse than the aching tedium of gazing out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs...
...Honduras or any other tropical country, army ants might have been used for the rat eradication. These insects travel in regular columns and with horrifying voracity eat every living thing in their paths−insects, mice, rats, snakes, even humans. Natives welcome the ants' arrival to their homes, merely moving out until the ants eat up all the household pests and march...
Passenger traffic on the Southern Railway has declined 30% in the last five years, motor travel of course being the competitive influence. But while the auto was reducing passenger income it was increasing freight income. Fairfax Harrison, Southern president, estimated that 15% of Southern's 1928 freight traffic came from the automotive industry. Since Southern's 1928 passenger revenue was $24,000,000, of which 30% would be $7,200,000; and its freight revenue was $108,000,000, of which 15% is $16,200,000, the horseless carriage on the whole did not do so badly...
Elected. Henry Hoyns of Manhattan, vice president of Harper & Bros, (publishers); to be president, succeeding Douglas Parmentier, who resigned to travel...
...boys composing the tour are all approximately seventeen years of age, and travel resplendent in uniforms, marching upon occasion accompanied by their own band. A special train consisting of three Pullman cars, one club car, and a baggage car, has been employed during their journey...