Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inkling of what the junketeers would see came from Winnipeg, where the U.S.Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense was holding one of its periodic meetings. Canadian Chairman Andrew G. L. McNaughton and U.S. Chairman Fiorello LaGuardia hopped up to Churchill on a tour of their own. They reported that there were 1,000 soldiers, civilians and their wives (including 130 Americans) at Churchill on the bleak western shore of Hudson Bay. Artillery, machine guns, snowmobiles and winter clothing are being tested there. So are a few planes - DC-35, Mosquitoes, and a Halifax. Jet-propelled planes? Said McNaughton:'"There...
After his two years here in Leverett House, Seeger spent three years bicycling and hitch-hiking up and down the east coast doing odd jobs and singing at small parties and meetings. In 1939 he met Woody Guthrie, who led him on a western tour that covered 45 states and on which Seeger says he "learned to sing in saloons for the first time...
...Republicans' annual barnstorming tour in honor of Abraham Lincoln (250 speeches at 600 Lincoln Day meetings) was over. And it was now possible to get some new indications of how the local GOProfessionals sized up the 1948 presidential stakes...
Crown Prince Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia finished his cross-country tour of the U.S., prepared to head for home this week after a month's visit. Detroit, where Prince & party occupied two entire floors of a hotel, would not soon forget him. He saw the auto capital's numerous postwar wonders, but what he really wanted, he said firmly, was one of those good old 1936 Pierce-Arrows. His father's-very roomy and comfortable-was wearing...
These plays represent only a part of the term's work, with another full-scale production set for May and readings coming every two weeks. After a three night home stand, "Waiting For Lefty" and "The Ping-Pong Players" will go on a short read tour to Smith and Wellesley...