Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never felt comfortable in the editor's chair at Collier's. Since he took over the job (TIME, July 22, 1946), "Davvy" hadn't written a line for the magazine. Last week Editor Davenport eased himself out of the chair and got ready to hit the road again as Collier's chief correspondent. In his place as the new editor stepped ex-Marine Captain Louis Ruppel, 45, veteran of Kwajalein and the Chicago newspaper wars...
...have never been allowed to see the complete Victoria Regina, Broadway hit of 1935-36, because some of its characters represent living royalty. They missed the Negro miracle play, The Green Pastures, because its chief character was De Lawd. Officially, they never saw Manhattan's long-running Tobacco Road because of its shady morals...
...major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...
Weeks of tugging in the Newell Boat-house tanks during the winter months, however, convince many that crew is too rough a road to water travel...
...lies over the world visualized in these two books. Much of the Overland Trail had been well traveled long before these emigrants started, yet they still had the hardships of pioneers. The Indians were like stage Indians, no longer menacing, but certainly not safe. At the forks in the road there were travelers with word of how much better some other route was or could be, and at the river crossings there always seemed to be someone to overcharge them for ferrying each wagon and each mule...