Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herald guide frankly, "is very dollar-conscious," but there is a limit to the sacrifices some Britons would make for the sake of the almighty greenback. In London's West End last week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists...
...result, they get most of their stories themselves by going directly to the source. That means a crowded schedule of interviewing and travel-as well as keeping an eye on U.S. scientific journals for new developments. It is the kind of work that, to be done well, has to be done by experts...
...public, long conditioned to the principle that faster travel means greater danger, had all but forgotten the disastrous airline crashes of last winter; U.S. airliners were taking off once again with full passenger lists. Then, like spring lightning, disaster struck, again & again. In 24 hours of the Memorial Day weekend, U.S. commercial aviation lived through the blackest hours of its lively history...
...reach this hidden grove, European visitors from Simla, the nearest large town, had to travel two hours along mountain roads in four-man rickshas, then climb 3,000 feet down the mountain. They also had to climb up again...
Besides the bettered conditions, another change from wartime travel will be in the matter of rates, which range from $117 to $200 each way depending on class of accommodation and port of destination. English and French ports will be visited on each trip, while two or three sailings will stop at Oslo...