Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silk is becoming more popular this year as a material for dressy junior sizes, although cotton is still the predominant fabric in the junior miss dresses. Cashmere-type cottons are gaining popularity this season, and cotton knits are being shown for travel wear...
...Delighted to read your fine article. The travel industry has been one of America's greatest aids toward good will and fine relations between the U.S. and various countries outside the Iron Curtain. Our association of more than 3,000 members is composed of 1,100 of the best travel agents in the U.S. and Canada, including American Express, plus the best travel agents in other parts of the world. THOMAS J. DONOVAN President American Society of Travel Agents New York City...
...recent years was neither wholly financed nor owned by U.S. investors. About 85% of the overall expansion was financed by Canadians themselves. Incoming U.S. capital went heavily into oil and mining ventures, where Canadians were unwilling to take the risks. ¶ Capital movements between Canada and the U.S. travel both ways. Canadians' per capita investments in the U.S. at the end of 1954 stood at $117 v. a $58 per capita U.S. investment in Canada. ¶ Canadians need U.S. investment more than U.S. investors need Canadian opportunities. Most of the underdeveloped nations of the free world are pleading...
...regular ECA funds, said the report, the State Department has spent more than $8,000,000 helping more than 3,600 students and scholars cut off from funds from Red China. Of the 1,300 Chinese who have left this country, about 930 received at least part of their travel expenses from the Government, and 791 of these received emergency aid. During the Korean war, the U.S. detained 150 students who had acquired skills that might have been of military aid to the Communists. But when the last detention was lifted in 1955, only 39 students chose to return...
Amphibihouse. For travel-minded vacationers California's Neptuna Corp. has put on sale a house trailer that can pull up its wheels and transform itself into a houseboat. Built of steel and marine plywood, the 26½-ft.-long trailer can be powered in water by a 7½ h.p. outboard motor. It contains sleeping quarters for four, a kitchen, dining area and lavatory. The idea has proved so popular in California that Neptuna is producing five to seven trailer-boats a day. Price, without outboard motor...