Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith, travel ing with the unofficial U.S. food mission, arrived in India's malarial Karachi, within 24 hours was in a hospital with a 104° fever...
...transfusions. Curtis President Walter D. Fuller raided "X", transferred its editor, natty, 44-year-old Manhattan Adman Ted Patrick,* to edit Holiday. Fuller also dug into what Patrick called his "terrific staff" of "X"-men, many recruited from Yank and OWI. Holiday, Curtis' flashily upholstered but unexciting travel magazine, had dropped from a first-appearance (TIME, Feb. 25) sale of 450,000 to 400,000 (about half of them pre-publication trial subscribers), and newsstand returns were heavy. Fuller brushed off rumors that Holiday might fold ("damn foolishness") and said that Holiday's current circulation was actually above...
...right, darling. I shall never travel in the stratosphere again." Bird-necked Professor Auguste Piccard made that solemn promise to his wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...
...from New York to London. (If the Civil Aeronautics Board approves, airlines will soon cut their New York-to-London fare to $325.) If Cunard's fares were any indication of what other luxury liners would charge, airlines could confidently expect to capture much of the first-class travel. Cunard apparently hoped to fill the luxury staterooms of its Queens with passengers who do not like to fly. But airlines were confident that price would tell, that most first-class passengers would choose to go the faster and cheaper...
...could travel much faster than light...