Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon the expression of a desire to travel, Auden remarked that "the people of England are tired and all Europe is completely exhausted. Everything we have known on the continent is gone; the destruction has been mental as well as physical...
...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...
Journey to Moscow. When war began to engulf the U.S., Franklin Roosevelt called on Harriman's services more & more, finally sent him to London to coordinate the vast operations of Lend-Lease. In October 1943, after months of harrying toil and travel, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Russia...
...many of the lavish spreads looked confusingly like the advertisements they adjoined. And like the old National Geographic, the new Holiday obviously suffered from the same travel restrictions that have kept wanderlustful vacationers homebound. To season his first issue with a dash of global flavor, Editor Beaman bought a rewrite by U.P. Funnyman Frederick C. Othman of his six-day round-the-world flight. Other pieces covered San Francisco, the New Orleans Mardi Gras, the Southwest's cliff-dweller ruins...
...basic rules of interplanetary travel have been fairly well worked out. If a rocket or spaceship zooms off at slightly better than seven miles a second (twelve times as fast as an antiaircraft shell) it will have the force to escape entirely from the earth's gravitational field. Best method is to shoot through the dense lower air rather slowly, to reduce air friction; then shift into high above the atmosphere...