Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires," he said, contradicting repeated government assertions that the high-seas fleet was peaceably anchored at a port in southern Argentina. The rebels threatened to bombard the capital unless Perón gave up the office of President. That night, roving wardens enforced a panicky blackout in downtown Buenos Aires, cutting wires and ripping out connections where they found lights on. At daybreak, observers in Uruguay counted 21 rebel warships in the Plate, including two elderly battleships with 12-in. guns and two modern 6-in.-gun cruisers (formerly the U.S. Navy's Boise and Phoenix...
...promising Negro youngsters who need a musical break, why did the mighty maestro choose, as his protégé, a towhead born with a silver spoon, heir to a golden throat?" When wealthy Mrs. Pearl C. Anderson gifted the Dallas Community Chest Trust Fund with several blocks of downtown property worth over $200,000, more than one brother gasped: "Why give all that wealth to the white folks?" When Michigan's Congressman Charles Diggs Jr. named, as his first military academy appointee, white Thomas Jozwiak. there were those who said: "Ain't that a shame...
...quorum of elders. When good citizens tried to fight them at the polls, the bosses bought votes at $10 a head and put in a puppet government. Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street and in broad daylight, by hired bullies. In June 1954 Lawyer Albert Patterson, who had won nomination as Attorney General of Alabama on a cleanup ticket, was shot to death while sitting in his automobile just outside his office in the center of town...
Neither Snow Nor Rain. In Gulfport, Miss., the postman correctly delivered to J. R. and T. S. Glower a letter from Waco, Texas addressed: "Downtown Furniture Store Run by Two Brothers who Look Alike, Across Street from Dime Store, Appliance Store at One End of Street, Dry Goods Store at Other...
Trade Fair. The atom's potential as a business was not overlooked. In downtown Geneva, private concerns from nine countries staged their own unofficial "Trade Fair" of atomic products. The largest exhibit is from Britain, which is striving to become the world's atomic workshop. Its firms show the flow meters, leak detectors, radiation monitors, flux meters, etc. which are the simple, indispensable tools of the new technology. The French show a replica of a uranium mine entrance. The U.S. exhibit, with contributions mostly from big firms such as General Electric and Union Carbide, suggested the industrial look...