Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The ICC put its okay on a new 4,700 mile rail network made up by merging the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. Wisconsin Central, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. All are subsidiaries of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The merger calls for formation of a new...
For parents pouring through the festooned toylands of the U.S. last week-and caching away their finds on high closet shelves-the shopping had seldom been easier on the budget, or the variety of toys greater. Toys were bigger, more complex, better made and, believe it or not they were...
Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward 3 selling toys 30% to 40% off. Manhattan's Macys, was moving bestselling new toys below cost. Even venerable F.A.O. Schwartz, "Tiffany of the Toy World," was discounting for the first time in 98 years, had marked some lines down 30%. Surprisingly enough, it...
Though trains and dolls are still selling strong, some past Christmas favorites are lading The junior cowboy is riding off into the sunset. With the exception of ideal's hot-selling Astro Base, which simulates a landing on the moon, space-age toys are far out. Not science fiction...
Another emphasis this year is on realism, from talking dolls with a vocabulary bigger than some of the little girls who will cradle them to Aurora's 1960-model electric-powered cars. Scaled down to 2 in. in length, the cars can be raced around a miniature track, need...