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...recent survey found Thos. Cook & Son to be by far the world's best-known travel agency. The same study reported that Cook's image was that of a stable but stodgy and relatively expensive company. In that sense, the travel agency that started it all in the early Victorian era, 127 years ago, has become a sleeping king of the travel industry. Smug and content with its middle-class clientele, it has ignored both old competitors and the newcomers to the business who have harnessed the boom of cheap package tours...
...regular troops to its defense-more than twice the size of the U.S. garrison that held Khe Sanh. Total damage to the capital's buildings and property: $13.3 million, highest in the U.S. Arsonists and looters were highly selective, hitting elegant clothing stores such as Lewis & Thos. Saltz, or else stripping liquor or grocery shelves and then burning credit records. Ten deaths were counted in the capital. The 711 fires that plumed the city afforded a pyrotechnical spectacle unmatched since British troops burned the capital in 1814. Police and soldiers alike kept their fingers off the trigger...
...agents with com puterized, one-stop reservation-processing for worldwide hotel and transportation accommodations. Last fall, in the biggest undertaking of all, the Diners' Club paid out $5,000,000 to acquire Fugazy Travel Bureau, the third largest travel agency in the U.S., after Amer ican Express and Thos. Cook...
...runs and partly owns more than 40 hotels and restaurants in ten countries. Its 16,000 employees (specially trained in two Paris schools) staff restaurants or bars in most of Europe's railway stations, also cater meals for 33 airlines. The firm also retains a 25% interest in Thos. Cook & Son travel agency, shares quarters and billing with it in many cities. Having built France's first motel in 1955, Wagons-Lits feels that motels are the big business of the future in Europe, has already invested in eleven in seven countries, including one in the Italian Alps...
...been able to say what they want to say and not what some banker thinks the public wants to be told. The results have not always been happy. The new men, in particular the very young new men, have turned out miles of absolutely asinine acetate, and whover wirtes thos subtilise ouhgt to be shto. Nevertheless, with stunning consistency, with the fire and élan of spirits snatched out of themselves and whirled away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through...