Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buses inched along the streets and trains moved cautiously along their rights of way. The 5:18 from Charing Cross to Kent that evening ground to a stop just past St. John's station to wait its turn at Park's Bridge Junction, which Londoners call the "busiest strip of railway line in the world." The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years...
Home & Abroad. Sicilian businessmen learned to take full advantage of their country's natural resources. Sicily's position astride shipping routes turned the port of Palermo into the Mediterranean's busiest repair center, with 5,000 new workers. New irrigation and land-reclamation schemes are making agriculture a prime source of foreign exchange, with export sales of processed fruits and vegetables rising from almost nothing in 1946 to $37 million in 1955, some $48 million last year. Much of the new industry is homegrown, but much more comes from foreign businessmen and mainland Italians who know...
...Reserve's decision to reduce its discount rate. Wall Street was caught completely by surprise, but it acted fast. West Coast markets were still open, and they were swamped with orders to buy. Stocks rose sharply on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, giving the San Francisco branch its busiest hour in 25 years...
...Wheaton, before leaving on a ten-day vacation. "Let's keep it that way." Hagerty had barely arrived in Puerto Rico when Sputnik 11 shattered the lull at the White House. Annie Wheaton's first week under the gun as acting press secretary was Ike's busiest in months...
...effort to defeat Incumbent Democratic Governor Robert Baumle Meyner next week in the key U.S. election of 1957, the G.O.P. had also called out Labor Secretary James P. . Mitchell, Interior Secretary Fred Seaton and New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case. But the busiest campaigner of them all was energetic Malcolm Forbes, 38, who was trying to dramatize issues in a state that Bob Meyner has governed blandly but well...