Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University Travel Company, College students' orders for plane and train tickets were about equal, while there was little demand for bus seats...
...Tuckerman's Ravine and the Suicide Six bore you, if you Nosedive no longer holds that old charm, then salt away you Lake Placid folders and take the next train west...
...famous Lord trail, a nar- row hazard to even the best skiers last year, was given a face lifting and now provides room for any amount of tail-wagging and stemming. Mount Mansfield, hidden in the nether regions of Vermont and a long voyage by train or car, caters to skiers who want to ski and has little social life. It is expensive, but the expense pays for fun over the hickories, not over cocktails...
...Hampshire's White Mountain eastern slope region, though long and grueling to reach by train, is the best skiing area in the East for the car owner. Twenty-five road miles are lined with every type of skiing for every type of waxed hickory addict...
...years of grubby austerity have filled Fleet Street with a certain frustration-a neurosis Britain's hardy provincial papers seem to have escaped. "How can we train reporters," asked a London news editor, "when even a good man can go for weeks without getting a line into print? It's just a dry run, night after night." Some journalists have been overtaken by a creeping lethargy: it is hard to hustle for scoops when editions will sell out without them. "I keep feeling guilty," said a circulation manager. "Instead of talking people into buying more papers...