Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...young man dropped a coin in the turnstile, walked out on to the platform. But instead of boarding a train, he stood there and watched while three other people came through the turnstile after him. Then he looked hastily around, darted to the turnstile, put his lips to the coin slot, sucked. At this point the amazed Mr. Milli bounded out of hiding and grabbed him. In the young man's mouth. Milli later declared, was a nickel...
...dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...
...returns to character again when the planes come aboard. On a platform at her stern the signal officer brings them in. They plunk down with a bang into the arresting gear, while the parti-colored uniforms of her goblins appear and disappear from her mahogany-red deck. Compressed air sighs and hisses. Bells ring. Whistles blow as planes taxi forward and are whisked magically below to the hangar deck on high-speed elevators. Occasionally a siren wails like a seagoing banshee as a pilot overshoots and cracks up against the barrier (but seldom hurts himself or crew...
...policy discussion followed, in which the Union adopted a platform on both national and international affairs. The national program advocated a continuation of the New Deal, and an extension of the "concept that democracy is a program for human betterment as well as a governmental procedure...
...objections. All 17 directors of Japan Iron Manufacturing Co.. the largest Japanese enterprise of its kind, resigned and publicly predicted trouble ahead for the steel industry. By the time the broad principles of the New Economic Structure were announced this week, the plan had been watered down. The platform reached the following compromise: "Private industrial enterprise is to be the basis of the proposed new industrial enterprise structure. Management of an enterprise by a Government concern is to be permitted in case of special need...