Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrong," confides The Great Malarkey. "I'm as good an American as the next guy. But . . ." This painful introduction prefaces The Malarkey views on meat rationing ("Not me! Not so a lot of profiteering meat packers can make themselves some more millions"), travel restrictions ("I'm goin' to travel to Atlantic City in protest"), gas rationing ("If I don't get the gas, somebody else will"), and other subjects from scrap metal to war bonds...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...
Interviewing Andrew E. Rice '43 and James McNulty '45, Sanford proved that such rumors as the one about the ERC being called up before January and the curtailing of train travel during Christmas vacation were without foundation, and backed up his statement with facts from the most authoritative sources at his disposal...
...capital allowed them by Congress. These profits are being used to pay off debts (which is anti-inflationary), and cash is being put aside as a reserve for the post-war cost of rehabilitation. Finally, a reduction in passenger rates would only tend to increase the amount of civilian travel which the Office of Defense Transportation is now frantically trying to reduce...
Taking two of the most pressing questions among students at the present time, Sanford will try to expose the real facts on the vacation travel situation and to discuss the probable time at which the various reserves will be called to active duty...