Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which this kind of generalization leaves its author, to stress in might be to gloss over what Curleyism meant to Boston. Here perhaps the most articulate of local commentators is Louis Lyons. "Curleyism," he said a week ago, "surrounded Boston like a moat for a generation, putting a chasm between city and suburbs with the most bitter refusal to entertain any cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that saw its major industries, textiles and shoes...
...fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board's dilemma was similar to that of a drayman, he explained, who was ordered to go from "Point A" to "Point B," and in doing so, to cross a bridge over a deep chasm. The bridge, however, had collapsed. Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip...
Though his New York series will prompt few Southerners to trade in their prejudices, it bridged briefly a chasm that is making it increasingly difficult to report the news with any depth in the Deep South. As segregationist Atlanta Journal Editor Ray, who gave the series a big play, said last week with unconscious irony: "I don't think Kuettner presents the viewpoint of the South. I expect he has become so objective that he may have lost his viewpoint...
NEVER in the history of man has so vast a gulf divided the haves and havenots. The free world's industrial nations, with only one-third of the population and a quarter of its land area, produce 86% of its manufactured goods. On the other side of the chasm are the restless two-thirds of mankind who occupy 75% of the free world, produce less than 15% of its goods...
...turned out the job was one of the toughest in Big Steel's history. The company had to plant huge towers at the cave and on the rim, sling light cables across the chasm by helicopter, then use them to haul across a 20-ton, 1½-in-thick main cable. In summer, 130° heat down in the canyon made tools so hot they blistered workers' hands. All food and supplies had to be flown in from Los Angeles 435 miles away; some 200 tons of equipment (compressors, hoists, welding machines) was airlifted in pieces and assembled...