Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strange Fruit. President Roosevelt was back from the most momentous journey of all his 200,000-odd miles of White House travel. He had been gone from Washington 13 days. For most of that time his whereabouts had been unknown to his country. He brought back his half of the unknown fruits of a conference that had no parallel. The U.S., though not at war, had conferred through the head of its Government with Great Britain, a nation at war, on how Nazi Germany was to be defeated, had further agreed on "certain common principles" as a basis...
Divorced. William Buehler Seabrook, 55, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo and primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); by Marjorie Worthington Seabrook, 41, his onetime companion in African exploration; in Newburgh, N.Y. She was his second wife, he her second husband. Her first husband married Seabrook's first wife...
...week, with attendance averaging over 4,000 a week, and the press devoting columns of space to it, the Buenos Aires show drew to a close. It moves next to Montevideo, then to Rio. The Mexico City exhibition goes next to Santiago, Lima, Quito; the Bogotá show will travel to Caracas and Havana. By year's end Nelson Rockefeller's convoys will have visited ten Latin-American capitals...
...tour, complete with travel notes, of Paris, Nürnberg, Innsbruck and the Austrian Tyrol, all on the thin edge...
...York City Safeway will face A. & P. competition for the first time. No imitators, Merrill and Warren have kept their stores different. Unlike A. & P., they have eschewed the trend to supermarkets, which they think make the housewife travel too far, serve her no better. They always shunned loss leaders, once an A. & P. specialty. Safeway once broke up a Los Angeles rival combine by urging women to buy the come-ons, resell them to Safeway at standard prices...