Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railway and airline offices on the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border many a U.S. citizen queued up last week and bought his ticket from a Canadian agent. In the same offices, almost every mail brought letters from the U.S. with orders and checks for plane and train tickets between U.S. points. More & more Americans were getting wise to the fact that they could get bargains in transportation by buying their tickets in Canada...
...budget, Canada had cut off the 15% wartime excise tax on air and rail tickets (TIME, May 23). In the U.S., a 15% tax was still on. The knowing traveler simply mailed his ticket order to a Canadian office (or went in person if he lived at a border point such as Detroit or Buffalo) and saved himself the amount of the tax. Sample saving on a round trip from Washington to Los Angeles...
South of the Border. Racing was then at its lowest ebb in the U.S.; a reform movement had closed the sport in Chicago, then blacked it out in Memphis, New Orleans, Seattle and San Francisco, finally shutting it down (for two years) in New York. The only two major racing centers that were not affected were Maryland and Kentucky...
...Policemen. Shortly after crossing the muddy Elbe near Magdeburg, we began to see evidences of the blockade's end. On sidings were long strings of freight cars with glistening loads of Ruhr coal and machinery. There was a stir of excitement-we were pulling into the Soviet border town of Marienborn. The station swarmed with dark-uniformed, Soviet-zone police and Tommy-gun-bearing Russian soldiers. First, two German Soviet-zone policemen came into each compartment, scrutinized interzonal travel orders, noted down names & addresses. Next, two more entered and asked how many westmarks and eastmarks each passenger had. After...
Sancton is no newcomer to either Stanstead County or the Journal. He first came to the leisurely little town of Rock Island (pop. 1,395)-in the rolling, Green Mountain country along the Quebec-Vermont border-to attend Stanstead College in the '30s. As a student, he covered college activities for the Journal. When the college's main building burned down, Sancton flashed the news to Montreal's Gazette. He got a byline and his first full-time reporter...