Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep up with such an increase. He intends to enlist the nation's best brains in a search for ideas on how to create new jobs, how to give employable skills to the many youths who do not go to college, how to cut the commuters' travel time in the nation's congested urban areas. He is convinced that this year's tax cut has spurred the economy, yet he hews to no dogmatic economic theory. At the moment, he is determined to hold down Government spending. Yet, if the economy lags, he has no compunction...
...decision merely reaffirmed a rule of 140 years' standing, holding that the Constitution's commerce clause gives Congress sweeping powers to regulate any activity that even remotely affects commerce among the states. But its potential impact upon U.S. race relations was nonetheless momentous. A Negro can now travel anywhere, stop at any hotel or cafe and be certain that the law, at least, insists that he be served...
Clark cited testimony before congressional committees which showed that racial discrimination is a nationwide problem, that Negroes are so uncertain of finding accommodations when traveling that it impairs their "pleasure and convenience" and has "the effect of discouraging travel on the part of a substantial portion" of the nation's 20 million Negroes. Observed Clark acidly: "One can hardly travel without eating...
...trend brings lower hotel bills as well as higher efficiency. Bankers and buyers travel to New York's money and merchandise markets more often, but for shorter lengths of time. The length of occupancies in Manhattan hotels has dropped from 3 clays to 2.2 clays per guest with the advent of the jets. "We go to New York at the drop of a hat," says Vice President Brown Meggs of Hollywood-based Capitol Records. "The jet has made the whole thing much more casual...
...Easy as Washington. It is also causing significant changes in corporate procedure. Lear Siegler now supervises eleven divisions with four corporate officers, who spend half their time traveling. International Harvester has disposed of five company planes, since commercial jets can do the job just as well. Company travel budgets have risen sharply: the Garrett Corp. of Los Angeles spends $1,500,000 a year v. $500,000 ten years...