Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, when passenger travel was above the saturation point, the railroads made it by the skin of their teeth. Now the Army counted on some 20,000,000 "more moves" of troops around the U.S. within the next ten months. Said Colonel Johnson: "On paper the job's impossible -but we're going to do it." Then he added: "How-I don't know...
...Quinn's formula: put into Fibber's loud mouth all the bromidic complaints of disgruntled civilians-and then point out the vulgar errors of Fibber's thinking. When OWI wanted to hit unnecessary travel, Quinn had Fibber attempt a 250-mile train trip, fail to get either a reservation or any sympathy ("If you insist on being bullheaded, why don't you take a cattle car!"), and finally admit that "the railroads have bitten off about as much as they can choo-choo...
...believe that capital punishment is the penalty for going on strike in Russia. They cannot believe that a Soviet citizen may not leave his home for as little as 24 hours without notifying the police; that no one may go abroad without permission (under penalty of death) or even travel freely in Russia itself; that divorce is virtually impossible except for the rich; that hundreds of thousands toil and die in forced-labor camps...
Since adoption of a 30 hour week would provide increased leisure and an accompanying increased desire to spend, particularly on travel items, it would help solve this important phase of the economic problem. Efficiencies of the two shift system that the six hour day would necessitate would, said Professor Hansen, result either of which might in the long run contribute to demand...
Professor Elliott has been serving for several years in Washington with the WPB as vice-chairman in charge of civilian requirements until his appointment Saturday to the commission. His duties have included mainly the investigation of civilian food, travel, and shelter requirements...