Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole galaxy of cosmic ray experts gathered last week at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, to honor Nobel Prizeman Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 80, principal discoverer and namer of cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan, who was spry enough last summer to travel by station wagon from Texas to Canada observing cosmic rays, described the gathering as "a testimonial to my longevity and a kind of celebration of my passage through the portal leading into second childhood...
...subject and size, the house organs range from Sulka Shirt Tales, which goes chiefly to several hundred dapper New Yorkers, to the digest-sized Ford Times, which plugs travel-in Ford cars-to 1,500,000 Ford fans. In approach, they range from out & out product brochures to International Business Machines' ad-less Think, which runs weighty pieces by such guest byliners as Secretary of State George Marshall. There are some big chains in the house-organ field: Du Pont has 40-odd periodicals, the Borden Co. 35, International Harvester...
...writer left the facts for her to fill in: "In a single day New York uses KOMING gallons of water, imports KOMING tons of food, spews out KOMING gallons of sewage and KOMING tons of garbage. In winter it needs KOMING gallons of fuel oil. KOMING million people travel daily on its KOMING miles of subway...
Otis' biggest job was the $3 ½ million installation of 74 elevators in the Empire State Building. But Westinghouse Electric, Otis' chief competitor, claims the world's fastest elevators: Rockefeller Center's bank of eight, which travel between the first and 65th floors of the RCA Building at 1,400 feet per minute, make passengers' ears pop with the fast change in atmospheric pressure...
...American Airways wanted a travel ad on Ireland. The J. Walter Thompson agency, digging through travel folders, liked some lines attributed to George Bernard Shaw: "I was lost in dreams in Ireland; one cannot work in a place where there is such infinite peace...