Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travel Season. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Gus Parigoff arrived from California to surprise her father, Lloyd Richardson, who meanwhile journeyed to San Gabriel, Calif, to surprise...
...rumors were right, Pinkley looked like a good man for the new paper's top job. As U.P.'s vice president and European general manager, Pinkley averaged 200,000 miles a year, acquired a travel agent's memory for train and plane schedules. He also developed a fondness for playing with words, congratulating U.P. staffers for stories with plenty of "zoomo," "zippo" and "peppo." What did he think about the zoomo annex, its zippo presses and the prospects of a peppo afternoon paper? Said Pinkley blandly last week: "It's a highly rentable office building...
...hours after the rail-wage fight was settled (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the Interstate Commerce Commission gave 61 Eastern railroads permission to boost passenger fares an average of 17% (a total of about $61,000,000 a year). By passengers' standards, it meant that coach travel was now as expensive (3? a mile) as Pullman travel was before...
...Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one's huge metallic caravan edges slowly through Main Street...
With an eye on the estimated $235 million to be spent this year by U.S. tourists in Canada, the Dominion was determined to be the good host. For Courtesy to Tourists Week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce put on its best smile. In Ontario, the Department of Travel and Publicity got down to fundamentals. It bought 1,000 copies of a cookbook to pass out free to tourist camps and small hotels, "to raise the standard of food served as an added attraction to tourists...