Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dimmed hopes that 285 million bushels of Canadian wheat could be imported via the lower Great Lakes ports this year, over & above the 90 million tons of iron ore and 57 million tons of coal that must move by that route. And reports made the bulge in Florida vacation travel seem more scandalous...
...Eire: British blessing on a forcible union of Catholic Eire and Protestant Northern Ireland. But Britain was less than ever in a mood to hand over its fighting comrades of North Ireland to uncooperative Eire. Instead, London sent Dublin a note supporting the U.S., ordered a strict curb on travel between Eire and Britain. Under study might be the withdrawal of other long-granted concessions: shipments to Eire of Canadian wheat, British coal...
Crews normally do about three long voyages a year, with eight weeks of fun and high living sandwiched in between. Men seldom travel alone or get home to see the devastation wrought by Allied bombers. Each crew is entertained as an isolated unit, to keep the depressing news of lost subs and comrades from circulating too freely via the scuttlebutt...
Thomas Jefferson founded his University of Virginia for men, but he believed also that women should have "a solid education." Henceforth the University will have girl liberal arts students-but the Charlottesville boys will have to travel 55 miles to Fredericksburg to fetch them to a german. The University last week annexed Fredericksburg's Mary Washington College, named for George Washington's mother, the largest women's college in the State (1,528 students). Formerly a teachers' training school, Mary Washington will specialize in the liberal arts...
...there was still no word of any ODT ban on civilian North-South travel on the regular passenger runs. Said Miami hotelman Andrew G. O'Rourke: "If the Government doesn't want to have the tourists here, why does it let them come South...