Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gantlet. In Rockville Centre (pop. 20,000), where the tracks run at street level right through the town, Long Island trains for many years have jammed up street traffic at rush hours, have killed nine persons and injured 24 in the past twelve years in grade-crossing accidents. State and railroad, at long last, were building an overpass. While the work was going on, trains were being run, one way at a time, over about 2,000 feet of "gantlet" tracks-with the left rail of the westbound track inside the eastbound rails. (A gantlet eliminates the need...
Then Winston Churchill, the aging battler,*lifted everyone's eyes from domestic affairs to the mushroom-shaped cloud overhanging mankind. "I cannot help coming back," he said in Edinburgh, "to this idea of another talk with Soviet Russia on the highest level. It is not easy to see how things could be worsened by a parley at the summit...
Arthur Godfrey!' Right away everything changes-nothing's on the level any more...
...demand was so great that Haas, who already had four factories, built four more. Since it is-privately owned, the company never reports its gross or net. It has an annual payroll of $5,000,000; sales last year mounted to 6,000,000 pairs, four times the prewar level, yet it still has to ration its output to dealers. Last week, Haas was planning to build still more factories-farther east. Like old Levi's Levis, Haas's Levis still bear the familiar boastful trademark-two horses vainly trying to pull apart a pair of pants...
...most students Lehman Hall is a cash register citadel, the barred castle of the Bursar. It also houses one of the University's most used and least talked-about services--the headquarters of the University telephone system. Operators working below street level answer day and night whenever anyone dials KI 7-7600, and people do that at the rate...