Word: travelling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...passenger could travel 32,000 times around the earth, 25,000 mi. each circuit, without accidental death, traveling continuously at the rate of 50 mi. an hour for more than 183 years...
Many a reporter of the incident last week assigned its cause to the decrease in Atlantic travel due to Wall Street imbroglios. But shipping men know that cancellations of passages this year were mostly in first and de luxe class and that these, in turn, are not a major part of passenger travel. Besides all of which, there is freight. It seemed more likely that blame for the depression would again be laid upon the frock-coated, almost mysterious figure of Lord Kylsant...
...revenue, to get people into the air (TIME, Jan. 20).* Last week with a heavy summer traffic fairly assured, the expected return to 7? was announced by T. A. T.-Maddux lines, American Airways Inc. (operator for Aviation Corp.) and Southwest Air Fast Express. Theory: a "habit" of air travel was engendered by the low fares...
...16th chief executive stipulated: 1) that he would serve without pay, 2) that he be allowed time to attend to his far-flung business interests, 3) that he must not be expected to become "involved in any routine work that would preclude my absence from the university for travel," 4) that he "would not feel justified in accepting any such executive position" unless he could count upon the assistance of Trustee Charles Day, Philadelphia engineer. All these provisos were accepted and Pennsylvanians felt they would get a sound business administration...
Mystery. Fast trains travel the 350 mi. from Montreal to Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...