Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this were a normal year most of you would be planning your vacation trips just about now-so perhaps this week (by way of consolation) you might like to know some of the things we have learned about your future travel plans...
Fact is, you expect to travel twice as much as ever before-and that's a great deal, for the records show that TIME families have always traveled far, wide-and handsome...
...year before Pearl Harbor, for example, nine out of ten of you went off on trips averaging 19.7 days, traveled an average of 2,156 miles. So many of you went by plane that a poll of airline travel card holders shows TIME far and away their first choice magazine, and so many of you also traveled by ship that similar polls show TIME way out in front as the favorite magazine of cruise passengers. (Another 142,800 of you traveled by Pullman-and the next Thursday you happen to be on a Pullman yourself you might look around...
More specifically, 169,000 of you plan to go to Scandinavia-166,000 to Russia-237,000 to the Mediterranean. And when we sat down to figure out the total mileage of your travel hopes we ended up with all these zeros -0,000,000,000-preceded by a six. (That equals 133,490 round trips to the moon...
...These travel facts and figures come from your replies to a survey our Research Department conducted among a large cross-section of TIME subscribers (if your name begins with a "C" you probably received one of the questionnaires...