Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour that the four airmen were safe in U.S. hands again, the State Department launched the cracking down. The Hungarians were ordered to close their consulates in New York and Cleveland; U.S. travel in Hungary was banned. Possible next steps: confiscation of frozen Hungarian assets in the U.S., and a complaint in the U.N. against Hungary and Russia for violating human rights. It was a measure of the times that the world's most powerful nation was powerless to do much more...
...Marshall Story). And Author Payne shows no signs of slowing up. He has eight more books in the works at the moment. One, a study of the tramp created by Charlie Chaplin, is finished and delivered to the publisher. Among the others are a life of Christ, a travel book about the U.S., a history of Western man, and a "study of France during several decades...
Canadians may now spend their money anywhere-to travel, to buy & sell, to invest in stocks and private businesses in the U.S., in French champagne, Brazilian coffee or Russian caviar. Canadian businessmen can trade their goods in any country and convert foreign currency at home. Foreign investors, whose prewar investments have been frozen in Canada, can now get them...
...dollar balance, built in part by heavy U.S. investments in Canadian development. The country's U.S. dollar reserves are now brimming over the $1,680,000,000 mark, more than three times what Canada had on hand in 1947, when she put the lid down on U.S. travel and imports. "We are sufficiently sure of our ability to pay our bills," said Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. "We don't need protective measures...
...most influential, characteristic work (e.g., his vehemently "Catholic" histories of France and England; his major assault on industrial society, The Servile State) could hardly be squeezed in. But present in all its glory is Belloc's great range of tone-a diversity of poetic styles that travel all the way from nimble, sarcastic diatribes against the faults of "us poor hobbling, polyktonous and betempted wretches of men" to what his friend Baring described as "grave prose like the mellow tones of a beautifully played cello...