Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Juan Trippe proposed was not only a revolution in speed and comfort in airline travel, but also a revolution in airline thinking. Hitherto airlines have cautiously added planes only when forced into it by increasing business. Trippe plans to get the equipment first and then drum up the business. Eventually he expects to shave passenger fares to 3½? a mile (current average: 8¾?) and thus tap the probably enormous "See South America in Two Weeks" vacation market. He expects to drop average cargo rates to 25.4? per ton mile (current rate...
...Crash" Davis' B squad meets Gresham for the third time this season tomorrow afternoon in the playoff between the two squads. Next Wednesday the Varsity will travel to the Squantum, Massachusetts, Air Base...
...this could have easily been avoided. On the second floor of the Student Club behind the shelves of books marked "travel" is the office of Mrs Inglis, Sympathetic of the midshipman's lot and eager to help him, Mrs. Inglis is the steering committee for things Bostonian. Anything from a Pope concert in season to a quiet game of bridge can be arranged upon notice. If, in the future, you have trouble understanding Boston customs or folklore, make her your haven...
...speed at which a rocket would have to travel to get free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels...
...many forgotten figures among literature's briefly great. Occasionally, but not often, Bell reviews at length a book given him for a book-note. One such was Dr. Axel Munthe's recollections, The Story of San Michele (it was neglected by publishers who thought it was a travel book). Bell's favorable comment in the Herald Tribune Books was its only Manhattan review. The book sold 250,000 copies...