Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caravans of tourists swarmed to the mountains and national parks. Ten thousand pleasure craft were anchored in California's San Diego and Mission bays, and beaches everywhere were jammed. Minneapolis braced itself for 50,000 fun-loving American Legionnaires on convention bent. Almost every event seemed to draw big crowds: thousands of Chicagoans tensely watched the league-leading White Sox play ball, and in Los Angeles, more than 85,000 watched an exhibition football game between the professional Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins...
...intricate real-estate deals, and various trucking ventures in which he got generous help from trucking-company owners with whom he negotiated as a labor leader. The most profitable trucking deal, as far as the committee investigators could trace, was Test Fleet, Inc., set up for Hoffa by a big Midwest trucking firm, Commercial Carriers Co. Commercial Carriers had some trouble with striking Teamster drivers in Flint. Mich., and Hoffa threw his weight into the dispute in favor of the company. Commercial Carriers then set up Test Fleet, transferred, all the stock to Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Bert Brennan...
Looking for Loopholes. Despite his "speaks for itself" record and all the attacks it has stirred up against him, Jimmy Hoffa is still cockily confident, brimful of big plans for the future, including an alliance of all land, water and air transport unions...
...took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily...
...have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such as Graham Island. And the northern halves of British Columbia and Alberta, though far south of last week's discovery site, have in the last year produced big gas wells that make the whole region one of the world's liveliest sites for oil and gas exploration...