Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands reveled in the gaiety of Calgary's annual stampede one night last week, three black hearses rolled across the city to a downtown funeral home. Past oblivious, whoopee-making crowds, the hearses bore the bodies of seven U.S. schoolboys, victims of the worst mountain-climbing accident in Canada's history...
Last week Casmir Andrews, 40, walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews...
UNION OIL CO. of California, which has 14% of the West Coast oil and refined-products market (1954 sales: $349,700,000), will build a $20 million business center in downtown Los Angeles with 1,000,000 sq. ft. of office space and an underground garage for 1,500 cars...
...downtown Memphis, a dingy, narrow street bears a significant (to Memphians) name: November 6th Street. It commemorates the day in 1934 when Memphis, urged on by its utility-baiting political boss, the late Edward H. ("Mister") Crump, voted against private power and for the Tennessee Valley Authority power system (it was the first major city to enter TVA). Most Memphians have remained passionately loyal to TVA; they were outraged when the Eisenhower Administration, under the Dixon-Yates contract (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.) decided to bypass TVA in constructing a $107 million power installation in the Memphis area...
...girls departed, and managed to raise only a dismal $6,100 toward the tour expenses. As a result, each girl dug up-by borrowing, selling instruments, etc., some $1,500 of her own, and stands to spend it all. But Portland knows better now, will parade the girls through downtown streets when they get home next week, already has scheduled a big fund-raising concert two days after homecoming. After that? "This is only the beginning," says Sirpo. "We still have to go to South America...