Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through which procurement orders had to pass. Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper studied the charts, announced that by his count an ammunition order "would go through 42 different departments and almost 200 operations" before contracts were actually placed. Senator Byrd asked McNeil how far the order would travel in the process. Said McNeil: "The speedometer reading on that is 10,000 miles, I am told...
...lacrosse team, previously slated to face Deerfield Academy here, will play there instead, if good conditions prevail. "Their playing field was clear as of 6 p.m. last night," Coach Bob Pickett said. Twenty-three members of the squad will travel to Deerfield to meet a team Pickett described as "one of our toughest...
...Toast to Ike. Moscow was their last stop on an eleven-country flying tour of Europe run by James L. Wick, board chairman of the Niles (Ohio) Daily Times (est. circ. 3,634), with interests in seven other small papers, and part owner of the travel bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly...
...next 40 weeks or so, Ted Lewis will be asking if everybody is happy in the cities which welcome him back year after year: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and a dozen places in between. He will travel with his own troupe of eleven musicians, a magician, and assorted singers and dancers, and will net himself around $8,000 a week. But everywhere he goes, 61-year-old Ted Lewis will be able to warm up his listeners with reminiscences of the barnstorming days before the going was so good-being booked...
Summer jobs are now Mrs. Shaw's main pre-occupation. She has had many requests for camp counselors, waitresses at resorts, and office help. Several families have asked for girls to live at their summer homes and care for children. One parent wanted a student to travel through Europe with the family, all expenses paid, to be a child's companion. The desirability of this job was offset by the departure date...