Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refugees have come at an average of 150 a day. Rosenow examines each person's credentials of fear: arrest certificates, summonses to work in uranium mines. A few lucky applicants are flown to Western Germany. Others must remain in Berlin, return to their homes, or continue their perilous journey afoot through the Russian zone to the West. Rosenow explained: "Panic alone is not enough. We have that everywhere. We can hope to help only those who must flee to live-and perhaps to fight again another...
...Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
...months, a bipartisan commission, created by Congress, has been tracking down waste and inefficiency in the executive department. It has been a journey through organizational chaos for 24 teams of experts. The commission's chief is Herbert Hoover, whose administration somehow got along on $4 billion a year (now it takes $43 billion) and with about 604,000 civilian employees (now there are more than...
...River late in the afternoon, she carried 2,250 paying passengers (mostly loaded earlier at Nanking), plus about 1,200 stowaways with their belongings. The ship's official capacity was 1,186. By 6:30 p.m. her decks were jampacked with blanketed Chinese bedded down for the overnight journey...
...Socialist Workers Party of Massachusetts will be the last opponent on the crowded week-end docket. Robert E. Kohn '50 and J. Phillip Bahn '49, president of the Council, will journey down to Dock Square in Boston to uphold the possibility of economic security under capitalism in a non-decision talk-fest to the states...