Word: travell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charter member of "Cowards Anonymous," I wish that the nation's railroads would seriously consider stepping up their efforts to provide faster, more efficient travel service for us groundlings. There must be millions of us! I have taken my last flight! Having won an all-expense vacation in Mexico City recently, I came very close to abandoning husband, children and country because I lost my courage to fly home...
...London Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, I make a minimum of four trips a year to Europe and back. By now I fly happily, read, work and even occasionally look at the movie, although that tends to work more as a soporific than a stimulant. My train travel is restricted nowadays to a ten-minute trip around the Houston Zoo on the kids' railroad...
Computers have changed the face of business and finance, and not just by eliminating the wizened clerks hunching over desks in the back room. They control the running of airline and train arrivals and departures, and it is within the foreseeable future that they will coordinate all aspects of travel including hotel and car rentals. Banks, insurance companies and the stock market are becoming automated. The list is endless, and boring...
...modernizing state and a communist state, but the bamboo curtain clacked shut to hide the hows and whys. China experts were left to reconstruct a tower out of the cotton candy spinning out of Hong-Kong: a dribble of official publications, captured documents, refugees and personal accounts of travel in China...
...come in Viet Nam. It won Saigon's permission to take contracts from RMK-BRJ, the big U.S. construction combine, and other U.S. firms, agreeing in return to pay a royalty to Air Viet Nam, the understaffed government airline that has a nominal monopoly on Vietnamese commercial air travel. Having assembled a motley but eminently suitable short-haul fleet led by eight vintage C-47 transports, CAS expects to take in at least $9,000,000 this year and make its first annual profit...