Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mature, relatively conservative British trade-union system-in contrast to the adolescent turmoil of U.S. management-labor relations-provided a favorable backdrop for such drastic decisions. Moreover the British law is democratic in intention: it treats all citizens alike, workers moved under the plan get travel expenses and an allowance for living away from home, those who think they have been treated unjustly can take grievances to joint management-labor committees which constitute a jury of their peers. But in the name of war, Britons live under a totalitarian labor system...
...Hosts. Driven frantic by spiraling inflation, still far from driving the Japs into the sea, menaced by the turmoil in India, China still has many li to travel before achieving unity and victory. But it has been over a year since there were any serious clashes with Chinese Communists in the northeast and north. The far reaches of the nation in the great Northwest were apparently more secure than at any time since the Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest...
...townsmen who live in 2,300 communities without trolley cars or busses travel afoot on nearly all occasions...
Hardest to regulate will be the 1,047,000 trucks owned by farmers or leased to carry farm products. Without trucks many farm crops could not get to market, but many truck loads of farm products bypass local markets and rail terminals, travel hundreds of miles to save a few cents' freight, and return empty...
...picked up the paper again, and it was still there in black and white: "ODT Curbs Travel to Big Games." Well, there went his plans for the Yale game, and with it his last hope that possibly he might re-capture, re-create the spirit of a year ago, that perhaps Elizabeth would understand him better. Perhaps it wouldn't all have ended like this, just a letter every now and then. He had planned every minute of it. The trip down to New Haven, the football special, the game and all the crisp excitement then dancing and a whole...