Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presentation of the Administration's proposed balance of payments program [Jan. 12]. It is indeed surprising and somewhat disappointing, in the light of what economists now know about the mechanics of the balance of payments adjustment, that this package of direct controls over international-capital flows and foreign travel should be presented to the public as an operational remedy for the chronic American payments deficit. Even without considering possible foreign retaliatory measures, the combined negative "feedbacks" (e.g., reduced exports and return flows of earnings on loans and investments abroad) will do much over two or three years to reverse...
...limitations on personal travel and spending will constitute a serious infringement of our liberties. It is an unfair price we are called on to pay for inept fiscal management in the Government and monumental giveaways at home and abroad...
...backed a $100 offer for 25 years (1925-50) to anyone who could establish "to the satisfaction of the editor" that a wolf had attacked a human being. The offer was limited to the Algoma District because "it would not be convenient for us to travel outside the confines of this large district...
...Trowbridge, "everyone is sharing the burden-tourism, Government and trade." Outside of Administration circles, that was a lonely view last week. G.O.P. Presidential Hopeful George Romney denounced the balance of payments plan as a "major backward move" from free trade, and insisted that Johnson's proposed restrictions on travel "would create a 'Berlin Wall' separating U.S. citizens from the rest of the Atlantic Community." Despite the Administration's globe-hopping efforts, the reaction from abroad turned almost as chilly...
...sketch of a gold bar, under which the boldface copy read: "There are only two ways to keep it in the U.S.A. when you fly to Europe. TWA-or our friends at Pan Am." The smaller print appealed directly to businessmen who, no matter what the Government's travel restrictions turn out to be, must still go abroad to sell U.S. goods and services. "We'll help you," concluded the ad, "even if we have to send you to our friends up the street." Pan Am, caught completely by surprise, seemed to be enjoying the ride...