Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant at Lorain, Ohio produces four times as much as an older plant of the same size-and with about half the manpower. Big Steel also has closed some of the older, less efficient plants and shunted their business to the huge new plants it has built near its busiest markets, e.g., the $600 million, 2,200,000-ton Fairless Works near Trenton, N.J. Last week U.S. Steel said it will shut the 72-year-old Rankin Works outside Pittsburgh, shift its production to the company's more efficient Donora Steel and Wire Works...
...stir and throb that reaches far beyond the cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers into the valleys" (TIME, June 9), Bill Smith. 28, a spring-legged, outdoor-loving correspondent in our Los Angeles bureau, moved up to Anchorage. From his base in Alaska's busiest city (pop. 35,000), Bachelor Smith will roam the new state, reporting Alaska's passage into the Union and the forward march on the newest U.S. frontier. After two days in Anchorage last week, Reporter Smith flew on to Juneau, looked forward to his new job as "a tremendously...
...Eighth Sea. The Great Lakes, long one of the world's busiest waterways, will grow even busier when deep-draft ships can steam directly from the ocean lanes into the ports of Toronto, Cleveland and Chicago in what trade promoters like to call the Eighth Sea, the Fourth Coast, the North American Mediterranean. The main payloads on the old 14-ft. canals - iron ore upstream from Labrador and wheat downstream to Montreal-will fill the holds of probably nine-tenths of the ships on the new canal. Seaway planners forecast a traffic load of 25 million tons...
...Brussels World's Fair has brought Eurovision's busiest beaming so far. A broadcast of the mid-April opening-day ceremonies was seen by an estimated 30 million in twelve countries, was described by announcers in six languages. This week, from the fair, Eurovision will crack the language barrier by telecasting a pictorial quiz game intelligible to all viewers. Though direct telecasting between Soviet Russia and Eurovision countries is not yet possible, Eurovision breached the Iron Curtain last month when Czechoslovakia and Hungary were hooked into the network...
...Famagusta's Hereon movie theater, where for the past ten years the screen has often been filled with the gun smoke of U.S.-made westerns, the shooting began earlier than usual one day last week. It was midmorning. and crowds milled through the busiest shopping area of Cyprus' third-largest city (pop. 21,100). Five pistol shots rang out and, just ten yards from the Hereon's box office, a man slumped to the sidewalk, wounded in face, chest, abdomen and hand. The gunman fired a sixth shot and disappeared among the shoppers. The victim, who died...