Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drivers are mostly private contractors, some of them whites. Though the government calls the oil run "Operation Octane," the brawny truckers know it as "the hell run." Attracted by Zambian government offers of up to $450 per trip, they travel night and day, seldom stopping to sleep. They fortify themselves against danger with python-skin juju charms, but their defense against the heat is more practical: bags of water laced with...
...Foch, next door to Debussy's old home, as well as a summer place on the Costa del Sol. Still, he rarely gets a chance to stay in one place for long. He has never stopped living well, and indeed, next to his music, he loves traveling best. "If I were not a pianist," he says, "I would be a travel agent." He could also be a professional connoisseur. He owns a fine collection of paintings and 2,000 rare books ("I could cry over a book with a fine binding"). His ties come from Turnbull's in London...
...fact that the airlines, rapidly phasing out piston-driven planes in favor of jets, understandably prefer to charge more for the jet rides. And for a long while the Civil Aeronautics Board permitted them to do just that: there was a well-established average surcharge of 10% for jet travel. But just as understandably, CAB Chairman Charles S. Murphy last summer decided that the airlines were making so much money that, in the public interest, rates ought to go down. The CAB thereupon decreed that there should be no surcharge on routes newly converted to jet. The airlines, claiming that...
...passenger's marital status ("family rates"), occupation (members of the clergy and military men fly cheaper), whether he is going first class or by air coach, by jet or by piston, at night or by day. Age has become a particularly significant factor in the cost of air travel: in the last month eight major carriers, including American, which pioneered the plan, have begun offering half-fare service on a standby basis to young people between twelve and 21 who had previously paid $3 for an age certification card. It's a case of all's fare...
...vast new ventures will accelerate, the men of the house of Lehman contend that private banking faces more opportunities than problems. Power needs will triple in 25 years. Railroads and their terminals need reorganizing to handle both high- and low-speed trains. There will be satellites, undersea dwellings, passenger travel through space. All will require investment capital in the giant bundles that investment bankers collect. While nothing is so constant as change, the Lehmans feel certain of one thing: nobody is likely to devise a substitute for money...