Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mecca for retired oldsters-nearly one of four St. Petersburg residents is over 65, against a national average of one in twelve-the city is also a winter shelter for 75,000 chilled Northerners. Most of the newcomers are as far along in years as the steady customers in Central Avenue's blood-pressure shops (50? a reading) and the softball players on the St. Petersburg Pels and Gulls (age range: 50 to 75). As the visitors arrive, the need for additional obituary space goes up proportionately...
...Times's readers are exacting. From sobering experience, the Times's Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times...
...recently spruced-up town in central Georgia's lush, goober-growing country, Plains had been without a physician since 1951, when Dr. Colquitt Logan virtually retired at 71 after having two operations for cataracts. Like 50-odd Georgia towns (and 1,450 now on record in the U.S.) listed as wanting a doctor, Plains might have gone doctorless for a long time...
...docket is the proposed merger between the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, and the proposed five-line New England tie-up of the Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, New York, New Haven & Hartford, and Rutland Railway...
...Quincy House elevator system swallowed its third victim of the season last night, when Peter M. Sieglaff '62, found himself trapped between the fourth and fifth floors in the central shaft from 5 p.m. until...