Word: trippers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mail from the folks and, above all, the reassuring sight of fellow Americans: the nearest American Express office. It is the tourist's "home away from home," in the cozy words of American Express President Ralph Thomas Reed. A handsome, hazel-eyed man who looks like any other tripper when he goes abroad, Reed is the businessman who first applied to foreign travel all the ingenuity and resources of U.S. industry...
...airlines talk confidently of getting the bulk of the business next year. But as long as the travel boom lasts, shippers are not too worried; they think they will get their profitable share-and they think they have some things that no plane can match. As one European-bound tripper put it: "Is there anything better than sitting in a cozy nook on the stern of a ship, smelling the salt air and watching the white wake, and knowing that you have nothing to do but enjoy yourself...
Brynteson held the Bunnies to eight hits, and walloped a pair of homers. Hugh Raphael also hit a round tripper for Dunster. Leverett's Dave Bloom hit two homers and the Bunnies' Jerry Gallo also smacked a four bagger...