Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violated the Little Steel formula. Technically it had not; but as a yardstick for real wages the formula is now mackerel-dead. WLB achieved its politically determined result by adding four and a half hours' work-at overtime pay-to the miners' week, and by allowing travel-time pay, something which it swore only five months ago it could...
...Nelson's spirit has been matched by some Japanese naval officers; the difference is one of strategic doctrine. Nelson believed in destroying the enemy fleet. The Japs believe in letting their armies destroy the enemy's land force. Supply lines are the essential of offense, since armies travel on their stomachs and win by firing ammunition which must be transported to them...
...surveyed his room. Irving Berlin's "Army" was never like this. There was no bedside telephone, but the room was carpeted and curtained. There were twin beds, easy chairs-all the comforts of the travel folders. He looked back on the day. He had been met at the train like a distinguished visitor. The lumpy overseas kit he had personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would...
Coach Jack MacDonald will take his charges to their first real intercollegiate test tomorrow when the Crimson booters travel to Medford to engage a strong Tufts team. The second team will go to Exeter and try to make it two in a row over the prop school...
When the speeches flowered at the formal dedication last November, The Road was hardly more than a slot in the trees. But while it was still a rough scratch on the earth the Alcan Highway somehow became a smooth fact in the pub lic mind. Travel-starved citizens dreamed of the day when they, too, might wheel the family sedan through Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, past Kluane Lake and Tanana (pronounced Ta´na naw) Crossing...