Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henceforth a private citizen who wants an air-travel ticket must stand in line behind Government personnel, the Army, Navy and Marines, businessmen traveling on war business. Other restrictions are still to come. The peripatetic U.S. citizen who, like Chaucer's spring pilgrims, loves to go places, henceforth will have to stay much closer to home...
Railroad passenger cars, long crowded by defense travel,* have been jammed still tighter since Dec. 7. In 16 days after the Pearl Harbor attack, 600,000 troops were moved in the U.S., three-fourths of them in Pullmans, the rest in coaches. (Only one life was lost: a Negro cook killed in a collision.) And many a commuter, to spare his good grey automobile, now goes by train instead...
...revenues and passenger profits. But because the railroads complain about rising costs, ICC last week granted them a 10% fare increase effective Feb. 10, letting them take a nick out of the public's pocket at a time when the public cannot escape. So citizens will not only travel less, they will be less comfortable when they travel, and they will pay extra for their discomfort...
Also asked for are English grammar books and travel volumes...
...together to some lonely place to write. Their first lonely place turned out to be New England. William Kissam Vanderbilt, who largely financed the Lafayette Flying Corps, commissioned them to write its official history. Then Harper's offered Hall a contract to visit the South Seas and write travel stories. Nordhoff wangled "some sort of contract" out of the Atlantic. They set off for Australia, touched at Tahiti, made their home there...