Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's strangest animals, and the only man who has ever made the furry, duckbilled, egg-laying protomammals breed in captivity. Last week Fleay was grooming two juvenile platypuses for shipment to New York's Bronx Zoo, and he hoped that they would travel...
...without much hope, to catch a replacement for Paddy. Most of this year's crop of young platypuses are already too mature. Last week, building a platypusary for Pamela's and Paul's trip to the U.S., Fleay was hoping that they would be reconciled to traveling by air. But even air travel will not be carefree. Between Australia and The Bronx, Pamela and Paul will demand-and get -7,000 earthworms, 165 crayfish, 130 chafer grubs and 1,300 meal grubs. By the time they arrive, Fleay estimates, they will have cost the New York Zoological...
...merger will give Thiokol all of Reaction's $16.5 million missile contracts, including those for the liquid rocket engines for North American's piloted X-15 plane, which is expected to climb to 100 miles, and may well be the first step to manned outer-space travel. With Reaction (1957 sales: $24 million) Thiokol expects to swell its sales as high as $75 million this year...
...University Travel Co. recently reiterated a charge that Victor R. Besso '57, director of last summer's Harvard-Rad-cliffe charter flight to Europe, mishandled funds and violated Civil Aeronautics Board regulations in organizing the flight...
There has apparently been hard feeling, however, between the University Travel Co. and Salomon since the latter declined earlier this year to promote a second student flight this summer in a plane chartered by University Travel. "Bloomberg made it pretty clear he would try to make trouble for us," Salomon said last night...