Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece (aunt by marriage of King George II), were war refugees. A few had journeyed from handsome hideaways in Morocco and Brazil. Travel agencies had done a land-office business...
...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...
Pacific Coast baseball men are fed up with playing Santa Claus to the major leagues. They do not like losing their Buck Newsomes, Joe Di Maggios and Ted Williamses. They think postwar air travel may well lure some big-league club to pick up a Los Angeles franchise (the St. Louis Browns nibbled at it two years ago). Above all, they await the day when they can support a third big league of their...
...travel was perilous. General de Gaulle and fellow travelers (among them: Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of Staff General Alphonse Juin) chafed, killed time at the Azerbaijan Opera House, then caught a train for Stalingrad. There the General watched steel pour from the furnaces of the Red October Metal Plant (now restored to 60% of former production), tractors roll from the assembly line of the Stalingrad Tractor Works. General de Gaulle presented the "Homage of France" and the bronze plaque in memory of Stalingrad's defense to the city...
...Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, Charles Morgan's Sparkenbroke and Lloyd Douglas' Home for Christmas, they ceased to sell on the Coast. (But Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends kept on selling despite his criticism.) Critic Jackson's own books of travel and California history (Mexican Interlude, Notes on a Drum, Anybody's Gold&) have sold only moderately well...