Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Express started to sell package tours on the installment plan with payments ranging from three months up to 20 months. A 15-day tour from Chicago to the Grand Canyon, California, and Las Vegas, Nev.-including fares, meals, lodging and guides-can be bought for $28 down plus payments of $23.79 a month for twelve months. Total cost: $313.48 v. $283 if all paid in advance. American Express expects 2,000 installment travelers to spend $1,000,000 on the plan in 1958, says that its domestic bookings are 10% ahead of last year...
...outside Reading, the telephone rang. Casting about for a fresh face for this year's political war, the G.O.P. steering committee had chosen his as the freshest. McGonigle accepted, then began beating across Pennsylvania in a tan Oldsmobile station wagon to make the face better known and to express outspoken views; e.g., he would, as governor, veto a right-to-work law; he would also probably have to raise taxes to meet increased costs and commitments...
...When it happened, all Hollywood broke loose. Newspapers all over the U.S. poured on the black ink and the big type, scrambled wildly for the kind of news that would keep the public buying. They found it. Two-fisted Aggie Underwood, 55, city editor of Hearst's Herald-Express (and only woman city editor of a U.S. metropolitan paper), decided that there must have been some love letters. She called Mickey Cohen, who took Johnny Stompanato's death as a personal affront. Cohen's hoods raided Johnny's expensive Los Angeles apartment, found the letters...
...worship; this could be taken for granted from the fact that it directly replaced the old Appleton Chapel which had a strongly Protestant tradition. But the church would have no affiliation with any one Protestant denomination. "The fund for the Chapel," said the Overseers, "shall be solicited upon the express condition that the chapel shall be held as an undenominational trust...
Jewish couples on several occasions have been married in the church by Unitarian ministers, and four times since 1932 weddings performed by a rabbi have taken place. But these last services have usually been clandestine affairs, conducted in express violation of the Corporation's edict. And the Corporation reaffirmed its decision as late at 1949, upon an appeal from Dean Sperry...