Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Travel. ODT refuses to guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
...American Highway as a "reckless" project which was "abandoned.". . . In truth, the Army turned the work over to the Public Roads Administration in the fall of 1943, and that agency is continuing where the Army left the project. It is hoped that the highway will be opened for travel in 1947 on a tourist basis...
Like light, the ultrashort radio waves used in radar can be focused in a beam, are reflected by solid or liquid surfaces, travel with the same speed as light (186,000 miles a second). But for "seeing" distant objects, radio waves have a great advantage over light: they penetrate fog, clouds and smoke, reach out to far greater distances than the naked eye. And unlike light, radio impulses can easily be controlled to give an exact, automatic measurement of the distance to the detected object...
...Yale game went up again this week as V-J reports promised some easement in the travel situation, but hard-headed observers have wet-blanketed the idea. Ivy League schedules have always been drawn up months, even years, in advance, and it's too late now to change things for 1945, even though the end of November is still three months...
...word from the H.A.A. is that spectator travel is the real problem. Harvard-Rochester game naturally is not expected to draw anything like the crowds that would flock to an encounter between Harvard and Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth. Two of the Varsity's opponents this fall do have official games scheduled with Yale, however, and some indication of how Harvard might fare in a clash with the Eli may be found by watching Brown and Coast Guard scores...