Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military capabilities of locusts are impressive. With favorable winds, they can travel 1,500 miles nonstop. One swarm of locusts can cover 200 square miles, do as much damage to crops in a day as several atomic bombs. Their discipline is proverbial: "The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands...
...skeds' best argument against CAB is the fact that they fathered low passenger rates, thus converted thousands to air travel and helped all airlines. (Bureau of the Census surveys showed that 75% of non-sked passengers would have traveled by bus, train or not at all if it hadn't been for aircoach.) In places like Alaska, non-skeds have helped bring a revolution in transportation. Says Alaska s Governor Ernest Gruening: "The Civil Aeronautics Board has been blind to our needs and deaf to our appeals...
...torpedo is said to be almost twice as fast as earlier models, and able to travel accurately to the operating depth of any known submarine. Small and maneuverable, it has its own Sonar for seeking out enemy craft that have killed their engines to ride out an attack in silence. No telltale wake of bubbles comes up from its chemically fueled motor, said the Navy, and it can be launched not only by submarines, but also by surface ships and airplanes. The Navy now expects to reinstall torpedo tubes on all warships smaller than heavy cruisers...
Vacationland, U.S.A. (Sat. 5:30 p.m., ABC). New travel show...
...Travel. The final blow comes when he learns that solid old English Seaman Jenkins (as Novelists Shepard and Shepard tell it) was really a fraud who never lost an ear at all. Disillusioned, he turns his back on the English, the throne and "the contamination of power and vulgar success," and sets off on his travels again...