Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drink made one feel American or implied admiration for the U.S.-that made it so. It is hardly a triumph of culture that an American can get a dry martini on request practically anywhere in the world; it is just good business in a day when so many Americans travel...
...American's thirst for novelty means, of course, that he also continues to borrow from abroad. The U.S. is a melting pot not only for races but for ideas as well, and many of the American customs and habits that travel abroad have already been influenced at home by other cultures. From the King James Bible to Scandinavian modern furniture to LSD, some of the best and worst of culture in the U.S. has been imported. With the rise of U.S. power and affluence, much American music, cinema, art, design, ballet and theater have begun to meet and marry...
...biggest strike in U.S. airline history dragged through its first full week, disruptive effects large and small spread across the entire U.S. economy and throughout the everyday life of Americans. Thousands of vacationers canceled travel plans. Hotel bookings dropped sharply in such varied cities as Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Honolulu. Miami Beach hotels, heavily dependent on package air tours for summer trade, laid off employees as occupancy rates shrank as much as 25% below normal...
...could have assumed today's form without the airlines. "Of all the inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted," wrote English Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1848, "those which abridge distance have done the most for the civilization of our species." The age of commercial jet travel, not yet eight years old, has not only shriveled distance to a degree far beyond Macaulay's vision, but has spread that frenetic blessing to hundreds of millions of people...
...nearly twice as much as they spent on equipment in 1965. With that outlay, the industry will add as much seat-mile capacity as it had altogether in 1950. The airlines are already the nation's No. 1 public carrier. Last year they accounted for 57% of intercity travel, more than buses (27%) and railroads (16%) combined. Of U.S. travelers heading overseas...