Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation. Dallas' well-named Bonehead Club tried and failed to airmail a St. Bernard back to the White House. Many a plain U.S. citizen, ears ringing with the week's officially urgent pleas for more manpower, less unnecessary travel, etc., sat down to write an angry letter to his newspaper...
Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
...near Sioux City, Iowa, the wild geese, held up in their spring flight by a six-inch snow, made such a racket that sleep was impossible. Through its loveliest country the Missouri is rich in historic sites that almost nobody ever sees because nobody ever uses the river for travel any more -old campgrounds, old trading posts and forts, Indian battlefields, old steamboat landings that date from the days when river boats pushed to Fort Benton, Mont., 3,575 miles from salt water. (Round trip fare between St. Louis and Fort Benton was $300; the menu included smoked buffalo tongue...
Many of the pictures will travel to other cities. The magazine Modern Medicine, which collected the show, chose Baltimore as an early stop because most top medical artists stem from a Baltimore school. They are pupils of the late great Max Brödel (TIME, March 14, 1938), who for 29 years occupied Johns Hopkins' chair of Arts as Applied to Medicine...
...watchful editors of the New Republic found in the New York Times: 1) an editorial deploring unnecessary travel; 2) four columns of resort ads, "describing, often in glowing terms, the delights of a midwinter vacation"; 3) "two columns of news about winter resorts indicating that social life is going full blast. . . ." Said the New Republic: "It is obvious that something is wrong...