Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Aces. The 9,644-ton, 17-knot Excalibur, first of the American Export Lines' postwar "4 Aces," sailed from New York harbor on its maiden run to the Mediterranean, reopening the line's first-class travel after eight years. Excalibur has a swimming pool and air-conditioned cabins and carries 124 passengers. Her three sisterships, Exochorda, Exeter and Excambion (replacing vessels lost during the war) will go into service in the next two months...
...Communists want to fellow travel with me, let them travel...
...Male Teat. Few of Grand Central's sightseers were inclined to carp. To them, the Century's elegances were a glimpse of unknown comfort, a far cry from the jolting realities of everyday railroad travel. The truth was that the U.S. citizen, in his capacity as a passenger, had generally been regarded by the railroads as a damn nuisance. Until very recent times, the railroads have been mainly interested in freight. Empire Builder Jim Hill, gloomily contemplating one of his Great Northern Railway's Limiteds, once remarked: "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...
...common-or-garden Pullman, still standard equipment for overnight travel, the seasoned traveler knows that he will go to bed when the porter chooses to make up his berth-no sooner and not much later. He masters the special technique required for undressing in a Pullman berth: a brand of gymnastics which would do credit to a graduate student of yoga. He knows that the car's oddities of ventilation make it the only place outside the malarial zones where a man can get a chill and a sweat at the same time. The experienced take these rituals...
...readers of Storm and Echo will discover. Of his earlier gifts, Prokosch still retains a descriptive talent that can make the heat, the stench, and the occasional beauty of the African jungle almost tangible. Stripped of its pretentious symbolism, its agonized soul-searching, this could have been a good travel book. But the vivid jungle is matted and twined with the perilous Africa cliché, reminiscent of Hollywood's stock treatment: "Well," he muttered, staring up at the constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp...