Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take All of Me. The pinched London dailies gave their all (four to eight pages) to the story. The U.S. press gave more space (having more to give) but less than its all. The New York Times ran the story for 23 columns. The Moscow press, of course, printed not a word. London's Daily Worker gave the story a scant twelve lines on Page One; its New York cousin sneered in big black type: 18 COUPLES WED-QUIETLY AT CITY HALL...
...more science looks at solid matter, the less solid it looks. Physicists decided long ago that matter was mostly emptiness, with atomic nuclei scattered thinly through it like stars in space and electrons orbiting around them. Last week, Dr. Robert L. Thornton of the University of California reported that even the nuclei are not very solid...
Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...
Follow the Parkway for 15.4 miles to Whitney Avenue, turn right and circle under the bridge following Route 10a to Edwards Street, then Routes 5 and 15 until Sherman Avenue. Turn left on Sherman Avenue to Edgewood Avenue, where the official parking space is located...
Terrifying Thought. Some shippers argue that the new ships' greater speed and better utilization of space will make up part of the greater cost. Three new ships, they claim, do the work of four old ones. But many a British shipping man also agreed with I. C. Geddes, of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., whose new $12,000,000 Orcades, a 31,000-ton passenger ship, was recently launched. "In addition to running costs," said Geddes, "these two ships [the Orcades and a sister ship to be built] will have to earn something in the neighborhood...