Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's best collection of Robert Louis Stevenson manuscripts. But Bill Beinecke's office at S. & H. is no ivory tower. The firm last year increased its sales to some $325 million and expanded aggressively into Britain. Last week it announced the acquisition of a travel agency to plan the trips that salesmen and housewives purchase with S. & H. stamps...
...keeping with the Review's official policy, the University community has supplied the material for most of the issue. Theoretically, this material, coming as it does from such a fertile intellectual source, should contain the fresh viewpoints of active researchers or policymakers. But for Harvard East Asian scholars travel to the Chinese mainland remains a forbidden luxury. Perhaps the staleness of the Review's issue on China comes primarily from the second-hand quality of most of its articles...
Although they were annoyed by the restrictions on them (not being able to travel to the West, not being able to get Western newspapers and magazines), these students were still very idealistic. They felt an excitement at simply being alive at that particular place and time which I have hardly ever seen in American students. They spoke as if they were entering a new profession. "In our country we have industry now, so the time has come to concentrate on other things: improving cultural life and political organization, developing a critical sense among the people...
...cargo lines, such as Slick and Flying Tiger, which claim that the encroachments of the big lines could drive them out of business. Most of the big lines are losing money on their cargo operations, but these losses are balanced out by the current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight of the all-cargo lines (which carry 30% of U.S. air freight), last week announced that it will come to their aid, most likely with route and rate concessions to keep them aloft...
...hours wide and 21 hours deep." That day is still some distance away, but an industry that does not blink at moving a 2,300-lb. cookie is quite capable of making the dream a reality. Right now, in fact, air freight is growing twice as fast as passenger travel...