Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Truckee River swept hip-deep through the business district of Reno: it smashed floating trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...
Percy Julian, a proud, energetic man of 51, stood his ground and served notice that his family would move into the house by New Year's Day. He hired (for $36 a day) a private, round-the-clock guard to patrol the property with bulldog and shotgun. "We've lived through these things all our lives," said Percy Julian. "As far as the hurt to the spirit goes, we've become accustomed to that...
...leave the local gambling house in no man's land. When a new game of fantan or mah-jongg is about to begin, gamblers from the Chinese side quickly pad over the bridge without having to pass the French check point. Every afternoon at 3 o'clock Tonghing's postman comes across to collect the mail. China's postal service there is so bad that many Tonghingers, and even people as far away as Canton, have their mail addressed to them care of Moncay...
Like her husband, attractive, dark-haired Ruth Stanton, 42, dislikes a busy social life. When they must entertain for business reasons, they do it outside their apartment. Calmly accepting her husband's round-the-clock work habits, Ruth Stanton says: "He'd work just as hard running a chicken farm...
...advertising agreement was dissolved and the station stood free and alone to brave the world, the F.C.C., the intricacies of an independent business organization, and the ever-present watchfulness of the Western Union time clock...