Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wood. They build and bore for themselves airtight galleries which shut out light, diseases, most enemies. These galleries also keep their colonies humid and draftless, so that the soft-bodied insects do not dry up. This sheltered existence makes termites hard to fight. When soil-nesting termites travel to find wood, they construct long covered runways, which may reach even to the second floor of a house...
...Ingenuity. Some citizens found new ways to travel...
...favorite brands and esoteric colors and concoctions may disappear. Because distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
Fact is that, with the exception of travel to Washington and a few other bottlenecks, practically every railroad could handle a good many more passengers than it carries now. Passenger business is up 50%, which means that the average passenger car is carrying only 24 people (last year's average: 16) v. a capacity of up to 80 for coaches, 30 for Pullmans. That is a lot more per car than they averaged last year, but it is still a long way from standing-room-only. What it does mean is a lot of people in uppers who would...
...barring troop movements on a hitherto unheard-of scale, there is still no evidence that travel by rail must be limited to essential trips. Most railroaders agree with the harried Union Pacific official who held his head last week and groaned: "Our dispatchers are collecting the damnedest set of ulcers you ever saw . . . but the only thing we have had to do is to tell some of these guys that, if they don't mind an upper, they can have it now. That's all it has really meant-changing the habits of the way people travel...