Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...didn't get to Europe during the war and would like to find out all about the comforts of a troop ship, or if you just want to look up that little brunette in Parts, or if you are one of those who are interested in "foreign travel and culture," the State Department and the U. S. Maritime Service have arranged things...
...others, he was worried by stories of fantastic prices, poor food, primitive living conditions. But he went anyway, firmly resolved to cut corners, stretch every dollar to its limit. What he found out was that the ubiquitous black market in currency enabled tourists to eat well and travel cheaply, though there was a slight risk in patronizing...
...started out with $300 in cash and traveler's checks, a $500 letter of credit-and by cutting his first corner. He had a friend in Honduras buy his T.W.A. round-trip plane ticket from San Francisco to Rome and mail it to him. That saved the 15% U.S. tax ($158). Other tourists would not save as much by this trick. The tax is now in effect only on domestic travel. He met the black market in Paris the first time he handed the clerk in his hotel U.S. dollars to exchange. The clerk, who was running...
...Texas' biggest quarter-horse, or "short," race in years: a match race between the two best short racers in the Southwest. In a box by the rail sat the three Hepler brothers of Carlsbad, N.Mex. They own Shue Fly, a true quarter horse-chunky, big-muscled, able to travel short distances (a quarter of a mile) with blinding speed. They had put up a $15,000 side bet, and most of the oldtimers went with them on Shue...
...schoolkids, who live in the widest-open spaces, this would be impossible. For them the commission would stretch travel time to 1½hours...