Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip via Australasia for $1,886 ($93.70 below its regular fare), with stopovers up to one year...
...this end Mr. Müller's problem was no problem at all. Pan American's New York City traffic manager said that his line was definitely booking passage out of New York to the airport at Santa Maria. He suggested an immediate round-trip booking for Mr. Müller's wife and child...
Recently, Tokyo moppets made friends with personable young Himansu Neogy, a Calcutta exporter who had taken time off during a business trip to visit the city's schools. They gave him bouquets of flowers, posed with him for group pictures. When Neogy was about to go back to India, they begged him to intercede on their behalf with Prime Minister Nehru to send them an Indian elephant...
John Jay McCloy, new U.S. high commissioner of Germany, had to reshape his plans for a leisurely trip to his new post. John Jr., 11, and Ellen, nearly 8, insisted on taking along the family pets (Hansel, a canary, Judy, a boxer, and Punchy, a beagle). But Britain's six-month rabies quarantine presented a problem. Diplomat McCloy decided to send the wife and kids and Hansel on to Britain by boat. To avoid the British quarantine, he would fly nonstop from the U.S. to Germany himself, personally escorting Punchy and Judy direct to their new home...
...along its way back to a normal route had the U.S. traveled? Harvard Marketing Professor Malcolm P. McNair squinted at the scenery and announced that one-third to one-half the trip had been completed. He guessed the index of industrial production, now around 175, would drop to about 155 before starting up again. The rest of the ride should not be "too severe," said McNair, certainly "less severe" than...