Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...
...Californians were the advance guard of a horde of 400,000 U.S. tourists who will go to Europe this year. Some will travel in luxury and in style, paying up to $2,340 for first class round-trip passage on the Queens and $1,790 on the America; some will rough it in the "dormitory ships," which carry student tours for as little as $280 round trip. Nearly all the 31 passenger ships (seven more than last year) plying the ocean lanes from the U.S. to Europe are already sold out for the summer. Though the rebuilt lie de France...
...Iron Curtain was beckoning the tourists and reaching for the $500 million in Yankee dollars that the visitors would leave behind them. Everywhere, hotels were getting a sprucing-up, and red tape an unraveling (many countries- had abolished visas). If not yet back to prewar standards and costs, foreign travel was getting simple enough to be good fun again...
Abbott also announced a cut in some corporate taxes, then set about wiping out or paring down excise and luxury taxes. The 15% travel tax on plane and rail fares and the tax on sleeping-car berths were dropped. So were taxes on long-distance telephone calls, telegrams, soda pop, gum and candy. The 25% tax on jewelry was shifted from retailer to wholesaler and reduced to 10% (immediate effect: retail stocks of jewelry were tax-free...
...likes to travel, and has returned several times to Russia to lecture, most recently in 1946. He was, he thinks, one of the last U.S. scientists to visit the Soviet Union. He still feels that men of science are the best hope for bringing understanding between nations. But trying to peddle that idea in the U.S.S.R., he says, was like "a voice crying in the wilderness...