Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles) as manager of TIME-LIFE International's overseas editions, in which he covered 15,000 miles by air within the borders of India alone. The rest is a multiplication of these news and business activities at home in the U.S. and overseas-plus the convenience of air travel for getting our editors away frequently to see the rest of the world they write about, and getting correspondents home for personal consultation on critical issues in the news...
...Middle East, the Far East, and, to some extent, Latin America, that postwar air travel has become indispensable to TIME'S news operations. Our Cairo bureau, for instance, figures that it has a million square miles of territory to operate in. Its correspondents can cover Palestine, Lebanon and Syria by automobile; the rest is swiftly accessible only by plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order...
That sort of news gathering would be almost routine to our correspondents in China. China is so big, its rail and road facilities so limited, that the news cannot be covered adequately without air travel. So far this year our bureaumen there have logged 61,000 air miles under, to say the least, Spartan conditions. Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief...
Said Leo Dolan, boss of the Dominion's Travel Bureau, last week: An "abnormal season. . . . We ought to hit . ". . $230 to $240 million this year." That was less than the $300 million expected by some Canadians earlier this year (TIME, Aug. 4), but it would still easily top the peak of $214 million spent by 21,282,000 visitors from...
...Partly we are quitting because we want to take a long, long vacation. We want to become a sort of lotus eater, at least for a while. We want to see all the warm, azure seas and lie beside them on the white sands. We want to travel to all the continents and to most all of the countries. We want to sleep late or get up early, without compulsion to do either. ... we want to loaf and travel as long as it amuses...