Word: street
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respectability. He leads what he calls a "very humdrum life" in the five-room frame house the army furnishes him in Ramsey, N.J., and rides to his 14th Street office every morning in the Buick sedan which the army allots him, behind a Dutch chauffeur who escaped from a German slave labor camp...
...Blood & Fire" on the army's flag has lost some of its meaning. The army, taking on respectability in spite of itself, has acquired property, a standing in the community, a connection with Community Chests, advisory committees of distinguished citizens. It has lost some of its old, hoarse, street-corner fervor...
...change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street...
...Wall Street's young bull market kept right on growing. On three successive days last week, trading topped 2,000,000 shares, making it the most active week since the big rise of May 1948. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.37 points to 198.05, the highest since August 1946. Most spectacular rise: Superior Oil Co. (California) which in three days jumped 69½ points to 227 on the news of a plan to split it into two gas & oil companies. Wall Streeters now expect the next test of the market at 200. If the bull gets over that...