Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper is paying all their traveling expenses, paying their wives ( who remain at home) the men's usual wages, giving the men $100 each for extra clothes and $15 a week spending money, and providing each with a $5,000 life and accident insurance policy while on the trip...
...after the voyage; that several passengers refused to leave the ship because it had returned home one day sooner than the contract called for; that cabins had been cluttered with bottles of water from the River Jordan, from Red, Dead, Galilee Seas (bidding, at the end of the trip, sent the price per bottle to 50); that at Constantinople many failed to see the mosques' interiors because they would not trust their shoes to Moslem doormen...
...several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been the Far West and Canada. Other comrades on this trip: Audley D. Stewart, able Rochester medico, Daniel B. Pomeroy, genial New York banker (cousin of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison...
...present, the second Mrs. Akeley, was Miss Mary Lee Jobe, stalwart mountain climber (for whom was named Jobe Mountain in the Canadian Rockies). She married Explorer Akeley in October, 1924, he being 60, she 38 (TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, MILESTONES). This will be her first trip to Africa; she will shoot only with a camera...
...addition to the two subjects which have already been mentioned. Dr. de Bosis will illustrate the account of a trip through Sicily and the Gulf of Naples as well as certain aspects of modern industry in Italy