Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving the precious cargo along China's bandit-infested roads meant constant danger. At night, the Friends slept near their cabs. Religious scruples forbid them to carry guns or to travel with armed guards. One Friend's arm was so badly slashed when he tried to ward off a robber's sword that the nerves were severed...
...Herzog, former chairman of the New York Labor Relations Board, to succeed ailing Harry A. Millis as NLRBoss; quiet, businesslike John B. ("Jack") Hutson, onetime head of Commodity Credit Corp., to replace Grover B. Hill as Under Secretary of Agriculture. ¶ Said he would not hesitate to ration civilian travel if the huge redeployment job makes it necessary...
That is the way world travel affects the Navy's 31-year-old, Rumanian-born Lieut. Saul Steinberg, who has spent the past two years being shifted about the world in uniform, scribbling cartoons in his spare time. Last week Cartoonist Steinberg published his first book of drawings, All in Line (Duett, Sloan & Pearce...
...first-string performer for The New Yorker since he began to mail in drawings in 1941, he has repeated some of his New Yorker work in All in Line. His travel impressions (half the book) are vaguely intended to be geographical notes on the world as a G.I. sees it. Having studied G.I. travel reactions with his specially slanted artist's eye as closely as he observed foreign landscapes, people and furnishings, Steinberg observes: "The boys bring America with them. They behave right. They get drunk...
...Travel. Railroad passenger-car builders were authorized by the War Production Board to start construction of 407 coaches for delivery early next year. For the first time since 1942, manufacturers were allowed to use stainless steel in passenger cars. But, like troop cars recently authorized, they will not arrive in time to ease this summer's travel crisis. WPB has consistently failed to allot the railroads as much steel as the Office of Defense Transportation estimated they would need; it looked as if that failure was coming home to roost...