Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course to have U.N. operating just twelve miles away from our home office here in Manhattan (see map) saves our writers, editors and researchers a lot of travel time. It is also pleasant to learn that ten of the eleven members of the Security Council read TIME regularly. Although they will undoubtedly turn out to be our severest critics...
Radio waves in the short wave band are peculiarly sensitive to solar conditions. Their normal line of travel is to the ionosphere (which begins 30 miles up), and then back to the earth by reflection. When the ionosphere is supercharged, as it is during sunspot periods, most of the radio short waves are absorbed, and transmission breaks down...
Miss Bowen's most effective stories are those which deal openly or implicitly with the "war-climate" rather than those which treat of "strange growths." In the title piece, relaxation of wartime travel restrictions lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered...
...Britain's railway carriages, once almost as hushed as an Anglican church, were becoming regular gabfest resorts. In an editorial advocating "silence" compartments, the Times chattered: "It is possible for six people to travel together . . . without any . . . shattering conversational interlude. But there is no certainty, and all meditation . . . may be destroyed by the chance presence of a single chatterer. Indeed a journey often affords shocking examples of the horrors of loquacity...
...Paradise!" So Pan American World Airways burbled last week in ecstatic travel ads. Paradise, which Pan Am seemed to have confused with Hawaii, was still not a regularly scheduled stop on any airline. But by plane or boat, every country on earth was once more open to U.S. travelers, packing their bags for the biggest travel boom ever. Even Japanese ports were reopened. Fare by freighter...