Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work at purposes that often cross. Washington, for example, doled out $66 million in subsidy to feeder airlines last year, helping them to serve cities as little as 100 miles apart. At the same time, it poured $4 billion into freeway construction, often enabling motorists to cover the same downtown-to-downtown distance in about the same time...
...that, lawmakers, bureaucrats and private executives alike have virtually ignored the obvious matter of synchronizing transportation by auto, bus, rail or plane. Not a single railroad, for example, connects directly with a major airport. The first rail transit to do so will begin operations next fall, linking downtown Cleveland with a terminal 42 ft. below the parking lot at the Cleveland airport...
...international customers of Peoria's thriving Caterpillar Tractor Co., the U.S.'s single biggest exporter of machinery. Peorians attend the new $1,000,000 arts and science center at 21 times the rate for the average U.S. cultural facility. The city has modernized 50% of its downtown area at a cost of $50 million and has sent architects and civic leaders abroad to study European parks with an eye to transforming Peoria into an "open-space city...
...Soriano fortune (Cebu copper mines, Samar iron, Mindoro cattle and dairy, Mindanao mahogany and San Miguel beer). American businessmen from Esso and Caltex, Hawaiian Dole and General Foods, are prominent in the Manila Polo Club; the Phil-Am Life Insurance Co., with its filigreed, high-pillared headquarters in downtown Manila, symbolizes U.S. and Filipino cooperation...
From the airport, the troops fanned out through downtown Kano, hunting down Ibos in bars, hotels and on the streets. One contingent drove their Land Rovers to the railroad station, where more than 100 Ibos were waiting for a train, and cut them down with automatic-weapons fire...