Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choose between two pairs of cheap socks and going to the goldfish counter of a five & ten and insisting on buying an elusive little fish that was hiding on the bottom of the tank (it took the girl 20 minutes to capture it). At Five Points, Atlanta's busiest intersection, Keasler and Photographer Ed Pierce, who concealed his camera, snapped the faces of male passers-by as they watched a pretty model adjust her garter-and ran the pictures in the Journal. In Atlanta's fancy cat show, Keasler entered an alley cat, made such a scene that...
...maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight time over all other west coast squadrons. All of the pilots were combat veterans, all but eight were married...
Battened Hatches. In all the U.S., on May 1, only 43,500 private shipyard workers were employed, compared to 75,000 last year, and 1,397,700 during the busiest days of World War II. Last month the shipbuilding industry received just one new order-a ferry for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway...
...before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...
Among British choreographers, 43-year-old Frederick Ashton has been the busiest and best, lately. U.S. audiences saw several of his witty, agreeable ballets, e.g., Cinderella, Facade, Wedding Bouquet, danced by Britain's Sadler's Wells company last fall (TIME, Nov. 14). Last week Manhattan fans got to see a new Ashton work danced by a U.S. company...