Word: drives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Mayor Bill O'Dwyer put on a special detail of 3,250 cops, made the whole force carry their two-foot nightsticks during the day, set up 55 heavily patrolled routes over which nonstriking hackies could drive and be protected. The union bragged on the first day that it had kept 97% of the city's 11,814 cabs in the garage. Manhattan streets were free of honking cabs and their aggressive jockeys; it was almost possible to cross a street without danger to life & limb...
...Chuck and brunette Glennis live in an airy desert house that is only a short drive from Muroc. They have three children. Donald, 3, has reached the shy stage, but Michael, 2, climbs all over visitors. Sharon Christine, 14 weeks, shows early signs, thinks proud Chuck Yeager, of developing into a pretty girl. What does Glennis think of his special kind of flying? Says Chuck: "I was flying when she married me. It was part of the bargain...
Chuck's pals are sure that he can fly the near-meteoric new airplane as it should be flown. He will bring it back safely, they are certain, from the top of the stratosphere, and land it at an unholy speed on the friendly lake. Then he will drive home to Glennis and tell her that the flight was "like all the rest of them." After a while, Chuck Yeager's friends hope, the Old Man will transfer him to some other Air Force job where promotion steps faster than the death that rides in the cockpit with...
...bill is, of course, directed at the Communist Party. The members of the legislature on the Constitutional Law Committee heard an ex-Dies Committee investigator, J. B. Matthews, testify last week that the best way "to beat the Reds" is to drive them underground. Unfortunately, the legislators who agreed with Matthews haven't stopped with that fallacy alone; from their questioning of witnesses who opposed the bill, they seemed to think that the term "subversive" ought to have a much wider application. "Subversive," as interpreted by some of these public servants, might easily include non-Communists who are suspiciously unorthodox...
...mysterious to the average Harvard man is probably the carpentry division. When a broken chair or table mysteriously disappears, to be seen again only as an item on a term bill, it may very well have been carted to the extensive wood-working shops below Dunster House on Memorial Drive. Also in this building are a tinsmith's shop, a key shop, a metal-working shop, and an upholstery shop. A staff of roofers (now almost exclusively employed waterproofing Widener), electricians, and plumbers complete the repair crew of Buildings and Grounds...