Word: trails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TRANSPOLAR FLIGHTS between California and Scandinavia may be operating by fall. Following successful trail-blazing flights by Scandinavian Airlines' DC-6Bs, the State Department and CAB have offered approval for the service provided that a U.S. airline is granted the same right...
...Wyzanski's position on the issue raised by the Congressional investigators was stated eloquently when, speaking as President of the Board of Overseers, he charged the new President of this University to pursue "with unremitting vigilance, inquiry into fundamental truths in every field of knowledge, no matter where the trail leads, no matter how unpopular the result." This, and not the cowardly counsel of suspicion and fear, is American doctrine
...grand tour has been fashionable for more than two centuries, but the trails have changed with the years. The gourmet trail has been blazed from snails (Paris) to schnitzel (Vienna) to cheese (Gruyére). Health was pursued at the healing waters of Spa, Belgium, and Baden-Baden, Germany. Art was tracked from Amsterdam to Florence to Athens. A temperance tour arranged by young Thomas Cook (from Leicester to Loughborough) in 1841 was followed by many a wine-tasting round (the Loire and the Palatinate). But until recently, music was the main attraction only at such famed centers as Bayreuth...
...Full-Time Cops. Their crime was to steal eight .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers from an Army shipment. Not long after that came the murder of Arnold Schuster, 24, an good citizen who happened to recognize Bank Robber Wil lie Sutton and put the police on his trail (TIME, March 17, 1952). Schuster, it turned out, had been shot with one of the stolen revolvers...
Actor March's performance is so convincing, in fact, that by contrast the upbeat ending seems a little silly. At the big board meeting, Holden hits the sawdust trail for bigger and better production, full employment, community service, and some sort of universal good. Exciting as the scene is, it leaves the spectator wondering whether business really needs such frenzied philosophic justification. The trouble with some of the boys in this executive suite may be that they secretly agree with Sinclair Lewis. They still feel vaguely ashamed of making money, and perhaps they try to salve their consciences...