Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article does not reflect exactly the thought I had in mind . . . but in the main it is accurate. I believe there will be considerable travel by airplane by those who are curious and those who wish to have the experience of the trip. In the end, however, the travel by this means will settle down to those who have urgent business and are willing to pay the extra price for speed. Last year the Santa Fe handled an average of 12,400 passengers per day on its trains. It might lose several hundred of these to airplanes...
With a record of 1400 miles in 15 hours of flying time, the Harvard Flying Club's new "Travel-Air" biplane reached the Boston airport yesterday from Wichita, Kansas...
Chicago and South Bend from three hours to two hours. Passengers had for their comfort observation cars with swivel chairs, smoking compartments, women's lounges, buffet kitchens. A quarter of a million passengers travel on it each month now, and factories ship a quarter of a million tons of goods by it monthly. With profits went further improvements. Last August employes with delight began burning all the company's wooden cars-because they had enough all steel rolling stock for their needs...
SEEING GERMANY-E. M. Newman- Funk & Wagnails ($5). This is the first travel book about Germany written since the War. Later ones will have to go far to equal it. Differences between the German Republic and Germany of the Kaisers are noted wherever they occur; in 420 pages of text there are 300 original photographs; although covering practically all Germany, Author Newman finds space for anecdotes-personal, historical, legendary. Important conclusion: Germany is one country that says "Welcome" without demanding payment at her door...
Following its usual policy of trading in its old airplane annually and buying a new one, the Harvard Flying Club has just purchased a new "Travel-air" biplane. This airplane, which is powered with a Wright J-6 five-cylinder engine, will be delivered to the Flying Club on Wednesday at the factory in Wichita, Kansas. It will be given in charge of R. B. Bell '30, vice-president of the club, and Max field Parrish, who are planning to fly it to Boston Muller Field in Revere will be the temporary quarters of the new biplane until hangar accommodation...