Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald Tribune sport editor, Stanley ("Coach") Woodward, threw the first brick. Wrote he: ". . . it is doubtful that any Negro will compete ... in view of the fact that he will have to travel to the scene in Jim Crow day coaches, and can expect nothing on arrival except segregation and abuse." Then Woodward steamed out to arrange a rival meet on the same day in some "civilized community," talked about renting New York's Randalls Island Stadium...
...Situation. In September, MacArthur began his job of giving orders to a god (see FOREIGN NEWS) and of occupying a land whose fanatical army of 4,000,000 was undefeated. Four months later, a lone G.I. could travel from one end of Japan to the other without even thinking of danger...
...proved performance-a much-improved performance over any existing airliner's. Connie will fly 43 passengers from New York to London at 300 miles an hour in 13 hours, faster than any other transport now in production; airlines which didn't have Constellations feared that travelers would ride on airlines which did. Lockheed's sleek new beauties had quietly started a postwar revolution in air travel...
Newsmen had felt compelled to go along: some of the biggest stories of the year had come out of Harry Truman's 25,000 miles of travel. Lately, like Franklin Roosevelt, he had taken to making his news in casual ways, at unexpected places. And if he made news by risking his neck, that news had to be covered...
...passengers weekly. But Pan Am and American expect to get bigger Constellations in the next few months. If the limitation is still in force, they will then be forced to fly some of their planes partly empty. Passengers who want to fly will have to pay higher rates and travel on BOAC's obsolescent Clippers. U.S. airmen hoped that the limitation would be temporary, and would be lifted when the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association meets in New York Jan. 8. But the British said nothing about a time limit...