Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Climax of the convention was the Legion's big parade up Fifth Avenue. It was held at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, when most businesses were shut and thousands of New Yorkers out of town. But though there was little cheering or confetti throwing, two million people turned out to watch. For noise, costumes, endurance and cessation of cross-town traffic, it beat anything Manhattan had seen for many years...
...city in the U.S. has a more rattletrap public transportation system than Chicago. Its streetcars, owned by four different companies (all bankrupt) and operated by a fifth, are mostly high-riding "antediluvian arks." Wooden coaches of the McKinley era still clatter around the Loop's rickety elevated lines (also operated by a bankrupt company). On streetcars and El trains alike, lurching is continual, overcrowding chronic and wrecks frequent...
...third of the rural population has malaria, a fifth hookworm. In Rio and São Paulo the prevalence of syphilis and tuberculosis is even higher...
Last week, in his Brooklyn debut, big (6 ft. 3 in.) Dan Bankhead, fifth Negro player to reach the majors, winged Pirate Outfielder Wally Westlake with a fast ball. A few breaths were tight-held-this might be the "incident" that many baseball men had feared. But Westlake trotted casually down to first. It was clear that, within the space of a single season, fans and players alike were beginning to take Negro players for granted...
Free Confetti. Welcome signs appeared in store windows. Fifth Avenue lampposts sprouted clusters of U.S. flags, flanked by the New York City crest and the Legion colors. The Salvation Army donated four donutmobiles. A gum company provided 60 million wrappers to be used as confetti...