Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Path's End. Last Spring Polish units of the Red Army overran the camp. They found Largo Caballero gravely ill. As soon as he could travel, the Russians hurried him by plane to Paris, where doctors removed a nephritic kidney, cut off a diseased leg, marveled as the old man clung to life, week after week. To Spaniards who came to see him the old warrior talked bravely of a restored Republic, though he knew he would play no part in Spain's future. Early one morning last week, in his 76th year, Francisco Largo Caballero closed...
Beck had already taken one step to make sure that the new magazine would travel freely. Said he: it will not "treat with political subjects...
...travel far on the Coast without becoming indoctrinated with the prevalent vigorous business optimism. Not even the difficulties of reconversion or the current labor-management disputes seem to dent it. In San Francisco, as elsewhere along the Coast, we talked to as many people as possible to try to hear all sides of the West Coast viewpoint. In the process we also had a chance to talk with Time Inc.'s newsmen who, as I told you sometime ago, have been multiplying out there since we established our first Pacific Coast bureau in San Francisco 11 years ago. There...
Last week in Hollywood, old Walter Duranty, 61 and ailing, set up shop in a new kind of stall. For $1 a month, he offered to send potential customers a "personal" (but multigraphed) letter a week, with their choice of topics: from travel and world affairs to letters for children "and, finally, letters of affection, which might mean any kind of love letter, imaginary, of course. . . ." Aside from an income, Man-of-Letters Duranty said he just wanted "to share with you my experience & knowledge...
...problem of sending cars through Chicago can be solved. Railroads have always sent freight cars through, sent many a troop train through during the war. The biggest problem has been finding the passenger traffic to make it pay. Before the war, too few transcontinental passengers a day wanted to travel through Chicago without stopping. Now, under Young's needling, railroads have found that traffic has increased enough...