Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warn doctors and parents that tonsil operations are dangerous during the poliomyelitis season (summer and fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...
...party's problem: charming Norma Ward Lundeen, the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen, who was killed in a 1940 airplane crash. Mrs. Lundeen, firm of jaw and of conviction, is campaigning to vindicate her husband's bitter-end isolationism, "to travel under his banner." People who had already looked under Lundeen's banner had found there many smelly characters like George Sylvester Viereck, old Lundeen friend now serving two-to-six years in jail for his work as an agent of the Nazis. Viereck ghostwrote many a Lundeen speech...
Productions may soon have to be less fancy-priorities constitute one threat, transportation another. Lavish musicals, such as used to travel in several baggage cars, will either have to go lighter on trousseaux or give up tours and tryouts...
...that they are making more money than they ever dared hope to make on passenger service. They know that the local accommodation business is lost forever to busses and automobiles, and they are glad to lose it. They expect airplanes to take away most of the long-distance Pullman travel. But they figure they can make big money on fast, low-cost, long-distance coach travel...
...average passenger is now riding almost three times as far. Moreover, since Pearl Harbor 6,584,422 troops (more than three times as many as in the corresponding months of World War I) have taken train trips. If these wartime habits persist at all, long-distance de luxe coach travel will be a cornerstone of the railroad business...