Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While they waited for travel permission or soldier husbands, those in Britain got some advice on how to act when they get to their new home. The advice, "A Bride's Guide to the U.S.A.," was cooked up by the British Good Housekeeping and the London staff of OWI. Excerpts...
...Soviet Embassy in Washington has asked Thompson, "When will your family join you?"-and the Thompsons hope it can be soon. Young Craig, 13, will go to school in Moscow, and he and his mother are both studying Russian on phonograph records. But travel to Russia is rugged these days even for a man. (Thompson went in an ATC plane that carried him across the Atlantic and the rim of Africa to Teheran, where the Russians picked him up and flew him over the Caucasus and into the Soviet Union. "The trip," he reported, "was cold, uncomfortable-and wonderful...
...Both the Duchess and I love to travel," the Duke said, and added: "Nearly five years in Nassau is the longest time I have spent in one place since my adolescence, and the longest I hope to spend in any place in the future. . . . We have no immediate plan beyond going to New York and probably to my ranch in Canada...
...corporation, owned jointly by B.O.A.C., four British railway companies, short sea shipping lines, travel agencies and independent prewar airlines, to service Europe and the United Kingdom...
...fast as TIME comes off the press Army trucks and planes rush copies north to our troops at the front (22,000 copies go this way, and 13,000 of these are given away). Other copies are loaded into ATC planes bound for Corsica and Sardinia, and still others travel south to Naples and Capri and on to Taranto. Bundles of several hundred copies each are flown by air courier to MTOUSA (Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army) and MAAF (Mediterranean Army Air Forces) and 15th Army Group Headquarters, while still other copies are delivered to Army Post Exchanges...