Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American drafted a tentative postwar schedule of prices to titillate globe-hoppers. Its figures are below the rates of prewar first-class steamship travel...
...correspondent carries a camera, Manthorp must register it with the customs. And the censors must have a look at any printed matter-even dictionaries and travel guides-that our man may want to take along...
...military pay, appalling housing shortages and bru tal rent gouges, plus the thousand and one exasperating accidents of fortune-the missed connections, wrong addresses, misunderstanding of directions or appointments, the unpredictable changes in military orders which can cancel out months of planning and thousands of miles of travel...
Special war travel gave Travelers Aid 885,000 cases to handle last year. That was about six times the total for 1941. This year the total climbed to 1,250,000 in the first six months, is still climbing. Agencies come into contact only with women who have run into difficulties in their journeys and need help. They have no estimate of the many thousands who are luckier, or have greater means...
Woman's Reason. The social agencies, like transportation agencies, do their best to discourage unnecessary travel. But they are well aware that any Army or Navy wife may insist on writing her own definition of "necessary," and there is no pat answer to the kind of frank explanation given by one eastern girl who had made the long haul out to California: "I don't know why I came out here. It was such a terrible trip. . . . But when I heard Harry was in San Francisco, I just went wild...