Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high. "Even if the examiner discovers a defect, despite the effort to conceal it, a candidate will often argue its insignificance to the point where you will almost be persuaded to delete such from your report. Beware. . . ." Epidemics of concealed ill-health break out whenever army groups prepare to travel. Reason: seasoned soldiers fear nothing more than separation from their comrades...
...real campaign, mountain troopers travel with elaborate equipment for their double duties. They take along winter's skis and snowshoes, boots and parkas, ski wax and sleeping bags, summer's saddles and harness, light uniforms and raincoats. Out-of-season equipment is stored at a main base, the rest taken into the field. No other troops tote so much...
...Mail. At Fort Benning, Ga., Lieut. John J. Y. Lyons received an airmail letter mailed at Lewistown, Pa. It had gone: first to Australia, back across the U.S. to Ireland to another Lieut. Lyons, thence across the Atlantic to the U.S. Travel time: 109 days...
Psychiatrists have long known that city people go crazy more often than country people, but the discovery of well-defined insanity zones within cities surprised even psychiatrists. Roughly, what Schroeder and others believe is that the rate of lunacy lessens as you travel out from the heart of a city...
With total passenger miles running 54% over a year ago and many a train full up, the southern railroads-which pioneered travel-building lower fares-decided they might as well charge as much as other U.S. carriers. Last week they got ICC permission to boost their fares from 1.65? a mile to 2.2?, the national rate...