Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood milkman, snickered the Empire News, "drives a horse-drawn cart through the streets, crying the familiar 'Milk-ho' before the homes of the famous on Sunset Boulevard...
...Pittsburgh streets, making lakes and torrents in the gutters. It streamed from the hats and coats and faces of the marchers, drenched their banners, soaked their shoes, as they trudged-850 of them in one group, 350 in another-to meet at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard. There the two leaders clasped wet hands, and all raised their voices in a spontaneous doxology: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow . . ." Four abreast, 1,200 strong, they marched through the rain together to celebrate the first Communion of a new church...
...American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track stock...
...monster Madison Square Garden rally. In Los Angeles, a parade of new cars led by a show girl in a pink, fur-trimmed Thunderbird implored everyone to buy, buy, buy. But the air was also filled with discordant notes. As the "You Buy" cavalcade rolled down Hollywood Boulevard, a motorist cruised up in a weary 1955 Chevrolet sedan that was equipped with a loudspeaker blaring angrily: "It's too late now! You're too far gone! Get your prices down! Get your prices down...
...long ago he specialized in booze and brawling. On his way home from the Army in 1946, Ken stopped in at his favorite bar at Sin Corner-Summers Street and Kanawha Boulevard-and there he learned that both his father and brother had just died. He promptly went on a bender that could be heard for blocks. Back at his job on the force, he was suspended three times for drinking, improper conduct, breach of duty. "I was nothing but a bum in a policeman's uniform," he says. "I showed no mercy, no tolerance. My arrest tactics were...