Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington speculation was based on three main theories: 1) that McGrath was left behind to justify charging the trip to the President's travel allowance, 2) that McGrath had roused the President's ire by intimating that he needed a political wet nurse, and 3) that the White House secretariat, which considers the National Committee a bunch of grubbing ward heelers, had persuaded the President to dump them. But whatever theory was correct, Republicans were surer than ever that the Democratic Party was falling apart...
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Harry Truman once complained that it is easier to move Barnum & Bailey's circus across the country than it is for a U.S. President to travel. This week, as the White House hummed with preparations for his first all-out political trip of the campaign, Harry Truman was making the Big Top look like a pup tent...
...incubator baby. In a single day it uses over one billion gallons of water, imports 23,500 tons of food, spews out one billion gallons of sewage and over 8,000 tons of garbage. In winter it needs 20 million gallons of fuel oil. Six million people travel daily on its 237 miles of subway and elevated lines, 1½% million on its surface transport lines. Some 400,000 commuters stream into Manhattan daily from the suburbs of Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut-a train arrives in its stations every 50 seconds, day & night. Its Departments...
...officers and men who have lived and worked in Churchill, the problems of large-scale Arctic war still seem almost insurmountable. Even if the cold could be licked, the difficulties of transport and supply would remain, and an Arctic army, like any other, must travel on its stomach. Dr. Omond M. Solandt, head of Canada's Defense Research Board, put it this way: "Today everybody knows it's impossible to fight a war in the Arctic, but we have to prepare for the man who doesn't know it's impossible...