Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who go abroad this summer may be subject to unnecessary delay unless they are familiar with the customs regulations of each country they visit, Gerald J. Downing, Manager of the Foreign Department of the Harvard Trust, said yesterday...
...personal belongings he needs to enjoy his vacation, as well as a reasonable number of gifts for relatives and friends. There are no restrictions on the amount of goods which can be taken from a country, but the traveller is just allowed, to bring $400 worth of foreign purchased merchandise into the United States duty free, and then only if he has been out of the country at least 12 days. Anything over this amount will be taxed the regular import duties. Last year the government imposed a $100 maximum on foreign purchases...
...Foreign air travel does not have to be that strenuous. Last week the thousands who flitted between the continents at high speed found plane riding at least as comfortable as a Greyhound bus, perhaps a little more confining, but with vastly more fun at the stopovers...
...along his road to empire, he competed with the empire-building air routes of the British, Dutch, French, Nazis and Italians, and usually won a place for Pan Am. He negotiated his own treaties with 62 foreign governments. "If Pan American had let the State Department deal with these countries in its behalf," Trippe says, "the U.S. would have had to grant reciprocal landing rights, and today would be crisscrossed with foreign carriers. As it was, by doing its own negotiating, Pan American had to offer nothing but air service...
Later in the day at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Shapley criticized American foreign policy before a panel discussion on "Building and Planning." As moderator of the panel, he declared that the United Nations and not the United States should be carrying out President Truman's "bold now plan" of building up undeveloped areas...