Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleepers will be all-bedroom cars, but designed for daytime comfort, too. Partitions will fold aside so that several rooms can be made into one for day travel. Beds, and practically everything else not needed during the day, will fold into wall space to make room for comfortable chairs and lounges. Smart dressing-table tops will cover lavatories and plumbing. Shower baths will be installed in bedrooms...
With trains like these, 74-year-old Edward G. Budd believes that plenty of passengers will still travel by rail in the postwar air and auto age. But Budd wants speed too: he holds that the railroads' ultimate goal should be a 50-hour coast-to-coast streamliner, charging $70 in the coaches...
...majority stock, the Tilletts' departure with the plant equipment looked like outright stealing; he got a warrant for their arrest. But the sheriff, who must catch the Tilletts in the state where the moving operation took place, has so far failed to serve the warrant. The boys travel incognito...
...Colonel was shot up in a rocket ship to a star, looked down at the earth through a telescope and was startled to see the battle of Waterloo just going on. (Said Fadiman: "It took the light rays from Napoleon's battle almost 200 light years to travel from the earth. . . . Things can't be observed to happen simultaneously in space. . . .") Then Stoopnagle was brought back to earth, put aboard a ship, where he observed that he was moving. (Fadiman: "Everything in the universe is moving all the time. The motion of a single object cannot be measured...
Unfair. Railroad men winced at airline advertising gleefully announcing the end of air-travel priorities by Oct. 15. Quietly the railroads were urging that: 1) the Office of Defense Transportation relax its ban on sleeping-car runs of less than 450 miles; 2) the Army turn back a few of the 895 sleepers grabbed from the railroads in July, when troop movements were at their peak...