Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like every other commodity in Europe, money is bought & sold on the black market. Through a series of "black" transactions, a man with flexible scruples can pile up a handsome profit. Required for the trick are 1) the false bottoms of inflation and 2) a well-organized international set of...
A traveler exposed to cholera in Naples can land in New York the next day without realizing that he has picked up the disease. A homeward-bound Denverite may leave a typhus area in China, sit down at his own table two days later, unaware that typhus germs are at...
In their drive for control of labor unions, they rely on five basic types of workers: 1) the Party member (secret or avowed); 2) the fellow traveler (not a CP member but an ardent follower); 3) the sympathizer (in essential agreement with the Communist line); 4) the opportunist (who makes...
In the cold morning of their postwar poverty, other nations understood themselves better. In Washington another traveler mused. Energetic, one-eyed Herbert Morrison, leader of the House of Commons, declared: "We [Britons] haven't properly got used to [peace] and often have to think twice when an automobile in...
The war was over. The postwar world was born. Everywhere the returning traveler saw signs of change, signs of no change at all, signs of change but too fast, signs of change but not fast enough: signs by the millions.