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lplanes to handle the traffic to
Europe, to the Mediterranean, IL
to South America and 10 across the
Pacific. Coupled with these proph-
estes, steamship lines are designing
and planning larger capacity ships
with greater speed.
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Domestic resorts from all sections
on accessible transportation routes
in 1943 reported volume increases
from % to 40 per cent over 1912,
with hundreds of resorts near met
ropolitan centers pointing to av-
erage gains of so per cent. Jolted
has been the tradition of two
season vacations, the demand for
rest and relaxation from the war
strain placing a continuous demand
on resorts. encouragement of rec
reation and periodic compulsory va
cation periods for war workers have
played their part in the demand,
too.
The year of 1913 likewise wit
messed Americas greatest outing
period, boys and girls camps showing
an increased enrolment of more than
80 per cent, coupled with lengthen-
ing periods of stay. The American
Youth Hostel movement covered
jaunts of all regions sponsoring
trips from the Rio Grande to the
Canadian Rockies.
Added to the American picture is
the recreation and cruising popu-
larity Of inland waterways. Amer
leans are recapturing the beauty and
pleasure OF their navigable lakes
and streams from the Great Lakes
and the st. Lawrence south to the
spectacular domains OF the Ohio,
Tennessee and Mississippi Valleys.
A new America for a future play.
ground, too, has been seen by mill
lions of men in uniform. The Ore.
gon and Santa Fe trails, the ma.
tlonal parks, the great Northwest,
the sprawling Southwest, the Grand
Canyon and California have been
seen for the first time, it Is esti-
mated, by 100000 soldiers and
sailors.
While the war has given a serious
setback to motor travel, it has ac-
compllShed more for the travel in
dustry in creating new routes and
scenes than the normal routine of
so years. War and military roads
have nearly bridged the links Of
the 1900 mile Pan American
highway from Alaska to Buenos
Aires.
And once the war is ended hun
dreds of new places will be seen
and visited by service veterans, rel
atives and friends. Satisfying of
such new peacetine detectives is
certain to open up vast new fields
in the travel industry.
Opening formally yesterday, the
Hotel Ormond launched its SID sea-
son. The hosiery, in Ormond
Beach on the Florida East Coast. is
noted for its fine appointments and
picturesque setting.
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! OF all the things war is DENYING
tnem, American people apparen,
miss the chance to travel most.
In fact, their nostalgia for their
vacation jaunts is so great that
$4,000 900 Americans right now are
making concrete plans for an i'm
mediate postwar Journey. deciding
where and how they will 90. the
Al-Year Club of Southern Cali
fornla~estimates in a survey, adding:
"Of these, 15,6O0,00o are putting
money in bank or buying War
Bonds ear-marked for the Victory
vacation"
Crowned last night as King Ia
hawus, the celebrated monarch Of
Lake Placid IN. " winters, was
United States Navy Seaman (First
Class Edward L. Burns of Phila-
delphia. Burns, a member of the
armed guard on a merchant ship.
was blown off the gun deck in a
i running battle last May in the
Mediterranean, yet lived to recount
the gun crews heroic action.