Word: westbound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going to happen it would be on the westbound trip, because then she would have seen France...
...worldwide currency devaluation last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) there were plenty of bargains-and also considerable confusion over prices. Nowhere was the confusion greater than on the international airways. On all eastbound transatlantic flights out of New York, passengers paid the usual rate of $350. But in London, westbound passengers could fly on British planes for the old rate of ?86, a saving, under devaluation...
...would turn Harvard Yard itself into a large traffic circle, with westbound traffic on Massachusetts Avenue turning up Quinsy Street and skirting Men Hall in order to reach Porter Square. But the narrowness of Quincy Street and the presence of students will probably force dropping this idea...
...tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south-and westbound long-distance circuits were knocked...
...spends her nuptial night in the hotel room down the hall. The room happens to be inhabited by pilot Stewart, who plods through the "you take the bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch." situation and later takes the heroine "way from it all" in his westbound plane--together with the cigar-smoking carnival monkey, the cringing embezzler, a corpse-loaded coffin, and other less interesting cargo...