Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Richards admits that Basic is "too frank" for diplomacy, but sees its use in "travel trade, scientific abstracts, and news reporting." He emphasizes, however, that Basic will not curtail the spread of other languages, and that "more people will have to be equipped to speak foreign languages than ever before...
...newsmen, Franklin Roosevelt had purposely vague explanations. There were, he reminded them, operational and travel problems involved. Washington heard that Stalin was perfectly willing to hold the conference any time in Moscow, but was unwilling to leave his capital: he was too busy directing Russia's armies. Franklin Roosevelt's advisers had cautioned him against a long flight to Moscow in winter...
...want to sound like a kill-joy ... but I do think we should face the facts squarely." A travel expert this week thus broke the news to would-be globetrotters: tourist trips to Europe are a long, long...
...Simmons, president of Simmons Tours, explained why: "Assuming the global war lasts three more years, it is extremely unlikely that the U.S. Government will start issuing passports for foreign pleasure travel until at least two years after the last shot has been fired. ... So there is no use getting excited ... at least so far as Europe is concerned. And the less said about the Orient the better...
...When all indirect costs (airline overhead) are added, plus profit, Boeing estimates the total cost at only 2¼? a passenger-mile, 11? a ton-mile, well under even the most optimistic postwar airline rates tentatively set for transatlantic travel (TIME...