Word: haven
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...Andau. a small Austrian border town east of Vienna, the awful majesty of the United States of America was seen in the face of a bureaucrat. It was a stern face, a doubting face, and behind it lay the answer as to whether each particular refugee could find haven in the U.S. The tired, dazed refugee could hardly be expected to notice that it was also a red-eyed face, a face sagging with weariness in a round-the-clock humanitarian effort. From their Communist masters, the Hungarians had heard much about the face...
Proclaiming United Nations Human Rights Day, President Eisenhower called upon the nation to "take to heart the lessons the Hungarian people have written in their blood ... in their indomitable will to be free." This came on the heels of his order establishing "Operation Safe Haven," a plan to bring the announced quota of 21,500 Hungarians (TIME, Dec. 10) to the U.S. by Jan. 1. Set into motion by the Defense Department, Safe Haven will carry 5,000 people aboard three oceangoing transports, about 10,000 aboard MATS and commercial planes. U.S. Labor Department officials aboard the three ships will...
...numbers in it. Now since Boston apparently is a big town, the Yellow Pages comprise Vol. II, which our Superintendent, the Irish Mr. Cogan, expects to have in hand in about two weeks. If Boston were a small town, it would all be in Vol. I, but we really haven't a right to complain, as there're probably enough numbers to go on with for the time being, anyhow...
...biggest piggybackers, the Pennsy and the New York, New Haven & Hartford, have elaborate cooperative programs to handle truck-company trailers as well as their own, provide such economical service that more and more highway companies are putting . their trailers on flatcars for trips of 500 miles or more. Drivers' wages (as high as $175 a week), highway taxes and equipment costs are so steep that some truckers are thus able to snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads...
...compete with Brown and several high school teams for the use of Providence's only ice rink," Providence's new coach, Tom Eckelson, said last night, "and we haven't been able to get the practice we need even for an opening game...