Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal honeymoon, the fractious days of WPA, the vindictive days of the 1938 purge, the bustling days after Pearl Harbor, and the days of high-policy travel when Casablanca, Cairo, Teheran, Quebec and Yalta became places of international decision...
...railroads, the central link in redeploying troops to the Pacific, the passenger jam now promises to be 10% worse than the record jam of 1944. Said Vinson: "The public is expected to refrain from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said...
...inevitable concluding hours on foot. It rarely takes less than a week to get to the point of contact in China and usually takes a fortnight. For there is only one road, one zone of maneuver, and along that road all the motley personnel of this curious theater must travel...
...many seconds does sound travel...
...publisher who tries to compete with an established A.P. member has "a hard road to travel" before he gets into the A.P., "the chief single source of news for the American press," the court found. To get around antitrust laws, the A.P. incorporated itself under a New York state law which applies to hunting and fishing clubs. And, like such exclusive clubs, the A.P. practices the right of blackball. Once blackballed by a rival, an applicant's only recourse is to throw himself on the mercy of the A.P. membership, which is all too willing to logroll ("You vote...