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Arnold writes about future travel — to New York City at Easter and to California in June. He jokes about his "Scotch" blood when citing Ben Nevis. The Nevis family is Portuguese, originally Neves, and we adopted the Scottish spelling Nevis to keep the pronunciation closer to the Portuguese, so there is no genetic relationship to the name of the mountain in Scotland.
We see in 1950 that a cross-country round-trip airfare is $278 for coach and $364 for "Sky Chief"/ "Californian"/"Sky King". In 2021 dollars they translate into $3000 (coach) and $4000 (deluxe), so it is quite a luxury to travel by airplane in 1950. Arnold saying that the difference is $80–90 would be about $1000 in today's money.
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Hazel writes with family news and vacation plans:
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Arnold writes his family about their travel plans in June.
He hopes to attend "U of C" as an exchange student, but I am not sure which university that is. Probably it is University of California Berkeley — the original University of California from 1868 — and at this time in 1950 it is still considered a single university with multiple campuses.
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