Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only has the number of commercial planes in use soared from 674 to some 1,300, but the air is also filled with thousands of private and military planes. When bad weather slows landings and takeoffs, the traffic problem becomes dangerously acute over the nation's four busiest airways: Boston-Norfolk, New York-Chicago, San Francisco-San Diego, Seattle-Portland, Ore. Planes bound for New York are often held up for an hour in Cleveland until the congestion over Manhattan can be ended. Delays are not only irritating to passengers, but costly to airlines. "Stacking" (i.e., circling, awaiting landing...
...stormiest sailing since the Depression. Of 1,329 vessels (with another 1,996 in mothballs) currently flying the U.S. flag, fully 80% will be obsolete by 1965, and new ships to replace them are not coming off the ways. Since 1952 U.S. shipyards, once the world's busiest, have dropped from fourth to eighth place in volume of new construction, with only 24 vessels being built in 1954. For the peacetime shipping industry, the result is an increasingly high-cost, low-efficiency fleet whose share of world trade has slipped badly. In terms of future military needs, the problem...
What she most likes about her job, however, is not the records and statistics, but the students themselves. Describing her year's work, she cites the spring as the busiest time; "there is a steady crescendo of activity from mid-years on," she says. And yet it is this period that Mrs. Robinson likes best, when theses are due and pile up in her office, when honors records must be prepared, and when mark-seeking students either line up far out into the Holyoke. House hallway or just swarm wildly into Room 8. For it is then, she says, that...
...number of shareholders in U.S. industry has grown until now there are an estimated 6,700,000 individual owners listed on U.S. stock exchanges. Though few own more than 100 shares in any one firm, together they control many of the nation's biggest and busiest corporations...
...Dusen was a young man of his time. The very word church, he wrote later, evoked "two vivid pictures, each heavily charged with repellent associations. First, large numbers of great, dark, often ugly, almost always locked, unused buildings set down at some of the busiest and most valuable corners of the world's life while quick and fascinating currents of thought and life surged around and past them . . . islands of slumbering inactivity amidst the urgent flow of public affairs . . . Second, two particular churches where [I] sat on under dull, mournful, interminable preaching by two elderly gentlemen in funereal black...