Word: channeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
...universities and colleges . . . Moreover, the fact that the number of resident students matriculated in the fall of 1955 showed a decrease of 5% over the previous year, while the number admitted to correspondence courses showed an increase of nearly 28%, suggests an increasing pressure forcing the Soviet government to channel the greatest possible number of the student-age population into the labor force...
...holder. Her yen for art and artists did not come until after her divorce, when she started her own London gallery, soon decided to found her own museum of modern art. At the outbreak of World War II, she took the proposed museum's purchase list across the Channel, embarked on a frantic buying spree of "a picture a day'' in Paris that netted her a museumful of art at knockdown prices...
Saturday's game at Yale will be televised over WBZ-TV, Channel 4, starting at 1:15 p.m., University officials have announced. Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics, denied published reports that the telecast would be an innovation in the history of the match...
...itself another career. In Paris, founder stockholders formally launched, the company into new business worlds as a French investment trust corporation. The Suez Canal Co. will invest $2,800,000 in French companies digging for oil in Algerian Sahara, and already owns a 30% chunk of the planned English Channel tunnel project. Other projects under consideration: oil ventures in Canada, iron deposits in North Africa...