Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed the accounts of this display of celestial crockery with minute interest and incredulity. William Gray, head of our Shanghai bureau, anticipating a query from us about the Chinese angle of this phenomenon, sent us the following cable on the eve of his departure for a reporter's tour of Manchuria...
Throughout the royal tour Philip's picture stood on Elizabeth's dressing table. She wrote him three times a week. By the time she got home again, Prince Philip of Greece had become plain Lieut. Mountbatten, a British subject. The U.N. and the U.S. had taken on Britain's Greek headaches. The last objection to the match seemed to have been removed. Philip proposed formally, asked King George's consent, and the King gave it heartily...
Surely the world did. And without a doubt, the triumphal tour of Argentina's beryllium-bright First Lady to the musty corners of the Old World had its miraculous aspects. For sleek, 28-year-old Doña María Eva Duarte de Perón was no ordinary tourist. There was scarcely a capital where her iridescent progress had not been reported inch by inch, scarcely a newspaper from the Times of London to New York's Daily Worker which did not wonder out loud over the significance of the trip...
...Argentina itself, Evita's tour was the talk of every town. Whether they considered her God's gift to the working class or a devil's advocate against the established order, the citizens of Argentina, who are Argentine first and partisan second, could not repress their pride in the First Lady's spectacular accomplishments...
Ontario's Premier George Drew, who had made a quick manpower-shopping tour of England to ease his province's labor shortage (TIME, May 26), solved his biggest problem of all last week. He found a way to get the British workers to Canada. Premier Drew contracted with Transocean Air Lines (headquarters: Oakland, Calif.) to fly 7,000 of them over at the rate of 80 a day in five chartered DC-4s, beginning in about a month...