Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ought to visit this end of the state, where light and radio waves still travel 186,000 miles a second...
...dollar-a-year men, Congress discovered last week, it is not the cost but the upkeep that counts. Each of them, on the average, said WPB, costs $3,600 a year in expenses and travel allowances...
Dollar-a-year men get $10 subsistence allowance for every day spent in Washington or on official trips, plus first-class travel allowances (parlor car or lower berth). At that, they are a bargain. Most of them spend about $20 a day to live with their wives in crowded Washington. When they go home for weekends, they pay their own expenses and lose their $10-a-day allowance. During all trips away from the capital they also have to go on paying hotel rent-or find their room taken by others when they return...
...summer before, after being suspended from amateur competition for ten months (because he was unable to account to the Swedish Athletic Union for about $4 worth of listed travel expenses), Hägg retired to the hills of his native Jaemtland, vowed that he would be back to avenge that disgrace. Two days after his suspension was lifted he cracked the mile record, 48 hours later the twomile. Gunder Hägg's latest prediction: he will some day run a mile in four minutes flat, thinks California is the place where he might...
Signed by Lt. Cold. Morton Smith, former adjutant of the Harvard ROTC, the orders state that men will be reimbursed for the cost of travel to Devens from the address given on the list...