Word: touring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caplin & Squid. The newly formed Sight-Seeing Tours Co. runs trips to Newfoundland's characteristic fishing villages -clusters of houses and sheds clinging to sheer cliffs. Harvey & Co. Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet. At tour's end, 40 miles from St. John's, is trim little Cupids, the beauty spot picked by John Guy in 1610 for the first permanent colony...
During my recent tour of duty as a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Department I spent about 15 months in Wiesbaden, where Miss Rosenberger was my secretary. Orphaned by the war, she fled Breslau before the Russians and made her way on bicycle and afoot to Wiesbaden where, in 1945, she went to work for the Americans. There she is today, a DP among her own people...
...Singer Paul Robeson, it was a busy week. Stepping off a plane in New York after a four-month tour of eight European countries, including a visit to the U.S.S.R., the burly baritone orated: "In Eastern democracies [i.e., the Soviet satellites] the people are happy and singing and are trying to build for peace-while I have to be met by a police squad*... an interesting welcome." As for Europe, "I found nothing but friendliness and good will for the workers and progressives in America." But "I found no liking for the Marshall Plan among the common people. I found...
...friendly little woman, brimming with vitality. She had to give up tennis while she was reducing. But when she is not on tour, she still roller-skates daily in Manhattan's Central Park. Even while she is busy preparing her part of the program for the Goethe Bicentennial celebration at Aspen, Colo, next month, she "keeps three kitchens going"-one at her sunlit 16th floor studio in the "heaven of Carnegie Hall," one in the nine-room house she runs as the wife of Dr. Shelby Rooks, Presbyterian minister, and one on their York River, Virginia farm, which...
Other airlines were also pushing vacation tours. Eastern offered a packaged "houseparty air tour," from New York to Miami and return. It included a week at a good hotel, food, dancing, wiener roast, a cruise and a champagne party-all for $153.82. United Airlines offered tours to Hawaii, to Colorado dude ranches, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Canada...