Word: hostelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teddy set up shop in a bamboo-and-mud hut next to the Press Hostel's kitchens (he says it had the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down last year), but he spent much of his time getting out to see for himself what was going on. For example, he was the first white man in 15 years to go into parts of Shansi province and come back alive. To get there he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck...
Although somewhat hampered by the tire shortage, the Outing Club is running two ski trips over the holiday weekend. One of the groups is going to the Plymouth Youth Hostel, and the other is going with Radcliffe skiers to a cabin in Pinkham Notch...
...Anthony Drexel Biddle received a present in London for the relief of child air-raid victims in Hawaii. The present: gs i id in pennies. The donors: child air-raid victims in the East End Youth Hostel...
Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
...than brick and mortar. The adaptable citizens of Chungking immediately started enlarging dugouts, so that work could be carried on there. Mass evacuations to the country began. The no-immediate-danger signal was sounded sooner, so that dugout denizens could get more air. Construction began on a new Press Hostel...