Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt's conscience hurt her: she told newspaper women last month at a press conference that she was ashamed to find herself going to a private lunch in a White House car, thus wasting gas and rubber. In My Day she called attention to her sins of travel, ascribed them to forgetfulness, promised in the future to use air routes, Government automobiles and Pullmans only when traveling as the President's wife on official wartime business. She said: "I'm not at all sure any speech I make is a contribution, or that it would make...
...World War I, U.S. railroads used four times as many day coaches as Pullmans to haul troops, and at night a doughboy usually had to fold himself up to rest on a dusty, red-plush day-coach seat. Today's soldiers travel across the U.S. two in a lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter...
...brief, vacationers can travel if they can get accommodations...
Married. William Buehler Seabrook, 56, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo, primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); and Constance Kuhr, 31, newspaperwoman; he for the third time, she for the first; in Sharon, Conn...
Canadian-born, he was sent to Alaska as a bishop in 1895, the year before the Klondike strike, learned to live in the arctic wilderness, travel behind a dog team, mushed 2,000 miles a year carrying out his duties. When he was 75 he abandoned the dog team for faster means of transportation. Four times he refused bishoprics in the U.S. His own wild diocese covered nearly 600,000 miles...