Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip vacation (if not too far away) as "necessary travel." Casual trekking-off over weekends is frowned on. Trains (preferably coaches), busses and common carriers are all right for holidaying-if space can be found. The use of private automobiles in the East is strictly illegal-even to visit an Army camp. But Washington said that travel would not be rationed this year...
...Burbled the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, with a placatory eye on ODT: "If you can't go fishing, go to the Shedd Aquarium and look at the fish. . . . Interested in faraway places? Visit the new foreign exhibits at the Field Museum...
...Englanders who once boasted of never having visited "touristy" Revolutionary landmarks are now setting out from Boston's Park Square, in horse-drawn busses, to visit Old North Church and Bunker Hill; now go by bus and train to see the Minute Man statue on Lexington's Green and Concord's "rude bridge that arched the flood...
...Summer camps in New York, the Midwest and the South have boom-time reservations. Reasons: 1) bigger incomes, 2) working women want their children watched when schools close, 3) mothers want to visit Army camps...
...need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your French Canadian Vacation is waiting for you, now- or when Victory is won." The All-Year Club of Southern California frankly gave up, plugged war bonds, said...