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Foley has suggested running buses through the subway, but the MTA said that the cost of pumping out exhaust fumes was prohibitive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Considers Plan For Removing Kiosk | 2/17/1955 | See Source »

...potent allies. El Paso Natural Gas wanted Canadian gas brought in to prolong the life of the San Juan Basin. Californians, whose daily gas consumption (1,400,000,000 cu. ft.) is growing 11% yearly, were worried that 2,800,000 new gas customers in the Northwestern U.S. would exhaust San Juan, thus shut off California's major source. Phillips Petroleum Co., which has big gas reserves in San Juan, also has gas-fields in Peace River that it wants to open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Big Poker Game | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...March's novel by Maxwell Anderson) will not be easily dislodged as the season's most harrowing drama. It is the tale of a sweet, golden-haired, eight-year-old girl who, when crossed or cornered, indulges in murder. But its various homicides do not begin to exhaust its horrors. Slowly, tormentedly, the little girl's mother becomes aware of her daughter's nature; then she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderess also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Open Road | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Although this does not exhaust the film's attention to insignificance, it does hit many of the high points. Of course, Cyd Charisse's brogue is pretty, and it's enlightening to see that dress fashions in 1723 Scotland owe something to Christian Dior...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: Brigadoon | 11/16/1954 | See Source »

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