Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cost of the Sun Valley development was about that of one of Producer Goldwyn's colossal spectacles-$1,000,000. When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks...
Week after taking Governor Alf Landon on a Florida hunting & fishing trip, Guide Walter ("Red") Welner was lost in the woods two days. Speeding through Missouri, the train bearing Governor Landon home to Topeka cut a 1,600-gal. oil truck in two, badly burned the driver...
Meantime Banker Mount gave his allegiance to the wrong commander. As soon as Mr. Giannini recaptured his empire, Banker Mount packed his trunks, departed with his wife and three children for a leisurely trip around the world. Mr. Mount and Mr. Giannini have not spoken since...
...Leon Fraser's Dutch successor as president of the Bank for International Settlements, Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, 60, last week informed the World Bank's directors he would resign at the end of the fiscal year. Nominated for his job was another Dutchman, J. W. A. Beyen, vice president...
...Home last week from a 36,466-mile round-the-world business trip by air, during which he arranged for U. S. planes to fly regularly between Manila and Hongkong, Juan Terry Trippet 36, president and general manager of Pan American Airways, was elected a director of Chrysler Corp. Not because he is a heavy stockholder, not because Chrysler is becoming interested in aviation, young Mr. Trippe was invited into the No. 3 motors directorate because Walter P. Chrysler, who often sees his neighbor and tenant at lunch in the Cloud Club atop the Chrysler Building, believes in surrounding himself...