Word: drivingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...fact that U.S. grain elevators were so clogged with surplus wheat from last year (TIME, June 6) that farmers would not be able to store the bumper crop now being harvested-and thus get no Government support loans on it. Dumped on the market, the grain would drive prices lower...
Within the year, U.S. drive-in theaters had doubled; more than 1,000 sprawled under the sky in 45 states, and, with at least 100 more on the way, the sky seemed to be the limit. Last week, while indoor exhibitors gloomed over a 20% drop from last year's box-office take, Variety reported a 10% boost in drive-in business...
...Drive-ins, which the trade calls "ozoners" and "airers," could also point to a recent triumph over man and nature. In Denver last fortnight, a once skeptical Hollywood had staged its first world premiere at an ozoner. Heavy rain lashed at the arena, but to see a Warner western called Colorado Territory (see below), 7,000 of the faithful waited for two hours in 1,500 cars...
...Connecticut line and to Route 110 from Salisbury to Worcester, the new road would have frequent cut-outs, none of which would stop traffic. Boston to New York travel would be considerably expedited even though the highway would come little nearer to Boston than Worcester; most autoists who drive to New York regularly agree that the slowest part of the trip is along Routes 15 and 20 from the Worcester Turnpike to the Connecticut line...