Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Habit to Break. U.S. citizens annually travel one and a half billion air miles, 15 billion intercity-bus miles, 25 billion rail miles, 240 billion motor miles -and the habit is hard to break, war or no war. With more money in pocket than ever before, people were crowding the public carriers, had increased traffic 50% in the first six months...
Chosen by the Quartermaster Corps to try out prospective equipment for Alpine troops, the Club members will travel west with a bevy of air mattresses, sleeping bags, tents, and packs to be given the third degree under actual mountain conditions. The Army is sending a regular expodition to Alaska to try out Alpine equipment, and the Mountaineering club, through some of its graduate members who are working with the Quartermaster Corps, offered to help...
...gave a performance in the open-air theater at Pearl Harbor. Throughout the entire show, heavy bombers flew at an altitude of about 75 yards directly over the heads of the audience and landed across the road at Hickam Field. For another performance, the cast had to travel part way by jeep, by motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy of army trucks and have...
...busy professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, the head of a family, gregarious, a voracious reader of books on travel and poetry. To those who knew him best, the late Austin Tappan Wright seemed the last man in the world to have much time to spare...
...Ever scientific, the German radio has made use of the well-known skip in short waves (they travel in a series of bounces, hundreds of miles long, between the earth and an ionized upper stratum of atmosphere) to make Midwesterners wonder whether they harbored a disloyal station. "Station D-E-B-U-N-K," when picked up around Chicago on the earthward bounce, was heard referring to European stations as "over there" and urging folks to "fight the dictatorship . . . in Washington." FCC triangulations located it in western Europe...