Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil servants streamed out of Government offices shutting down for the four-day Fourth of July weekend authorized by Congress, Mr. & Mrs. Truman left the White House in a car for President Roosevelt's Shangri-La, a lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...
...wheel of his car, rubbernecking, refighting the Civil War, Harry Truman had his wish of becoming a plain man again. Like other plain men, he was barred from a lookout tower on the field of Gettysburg by ropes and a sign: "Wet Paint...
...according to our ideas of democracy, peoples should be allowed to do things as they wanted, not as someone else thought was in their interests. Neither Morozov nor the Major understood. Even after the sixth vodka they didn't understand. These Russian counterparts of Britain's Indian Civil Service saw things with eyes so different that they could be worried only by the possibilities of a major conflict with America. When brought right down to it, they were frustrated because the Poles, many of them, did not seem to appreciate the self-sacrifice and generosity which the Russians...
Transpacific air routes, once Pan American Airways' private pie, were sliced up last week. The Civil Aeronautics Board, over Pan American's objections, handed a luscious slice to United Air Lines, which during the war flew some 5,000 flights between the U.S. and Hawaii for the Army. United got a San Francisco to Honolulu route paralleling Pan Am's. CAB picked United from the six applicants for the route because a majority of the travelers to Hawaii come from U.S. cities served by United. Thus United will be able to offer them single-carrier service...
...first-class fare was higher than Cunard's own prewar rate (about $287), only $15 less than the present air fare from New York to London. (If the Civil Aeronautics Board approves, airlines will soon cut their New York-to-London fare to $325.) If Cunard's fares were any indication of what other luxury liners would charge, airlines could confidently expect to capture much of the first-class travel. Cunard apparently hoped to fill the luxury staterooms of its Queens with passengers who do not like to fly. But airlines were confident that price would tell, that...