Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since February, the Maritime Commission has been refitting her for peacetime travel, at a cost...
...hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted it for its guide to New York City...
...workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
Said Southern Pacific in newspaper ads: "The airlines compare their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...
...airlines forget to add bus fares to & from airports (and bus travel time as well). Also they overlook their limited baggage allowances. ... We accept the fact that airplanes have one primary advantage-speed. But we think trains have a lot of advantages too, including economy and plenty of room to move around...