There .had .. been railway excursions before, but this one included entrance to an entertainment held on private grounds, rail tickets, and food during the train ...
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There had been railway excursions before, but this one included entrance to an entertainment held on private grounds, rail tickets, and food during the train ... .
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Cook was paid a share of the fares charged to the passengers, as the railway tickets couldn't ... issued at his own price.
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The bank has been held ... twice this year.
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He arranged for the Midland Counties Railway to charge one shilling per person for a group of campaigners ... from Leicester to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.
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Afterwards, he pioneered ... holidays both in Britain and on the European continent (where Paris and the Alps were the most popular ...).
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He organised the first package ... in history.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER.
Water kills thousands of people and _____________(1) many acres of crops every year, but water also gives life to all living things in the world.
Without water, life would be unthinkable. We ___________(2) have water to grow our food, feed the birds and animals ____________(3) our homes, grow forests and produce electricity. We use waterways__________ (4) carry our goods of trade. Even the human body, which is seventy parts of one hundred of water itself, ___________(5) exist for long without water.
Ever ___________(6) the earth began, large quantities of water have been used by living things. Yet for every drop of water that is taken from one place, another drop is put back from somewhere else.
Nature has a very clever __________(7) of carrying water from cloud to land and sea and back to cloud. No water has been lost.
But nature does not put water where and when we need it. _________(8) some men are drowning, others in another part of the world are dying of thirst. Thus, people all _________(9) the world are trying to bring water to places where it is scarce, to control its flow in times of floods and to make greater __________(10) of it.
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In a village on the east coast of Scotland, people were waiting anxiously for news. Two of their fishing-boats (1) ________ been caught in the storm (2) ________ had blown up during the night. In the cottages round the harbour people stood (3) ________ their door, (4) ________ worried to talk.
The rest of the fishing fleet had (5) ________the harbour before dark, and the men from these ships waited and watched with the wives and families of (6) ________ missing men. Some had (7) ________ thick blankets and some flasks to hot drinks, knowing that the men (8) ________ be cold and tried. As dawn began to break over (9) ________ the east, a small point if light was (10) ________ in the darkness of the water and a (11) ________ minutes later, (12) ________ was a shout. Before long, the two boats (13) ________ turning in, past the lighthouse, to the inside of the harbour. The men (14) ________ helped out of their boats, and although they were stiff (15) ________ cold and tiredness, they were all safe.
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He founded the ... agency Thomas Cook & Son (popularly nicknamed Cook's Tours), which became Thomas AG before eventually becoming Thomas Cook Group in 2007.
