Word: height
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...razing the old structure was simplified by a blaze on January 15, 1930. The fire attracted 4,500 onlookers and forty fire engines. Everyone watched but no one moved since flames were shooting twice the height of the building. When the inflreno subsided, over 300 complete football uniforms, 100 baseball pants, and miscellaneous minor sports equipment were listed among the missing...
When Chrysler Corp. went through its last big model change two years ago, the company thought it had its finger firmly on the public pulse. Corporation surveys showed that customers wanted shorter, easier-to-maneuver cars with less chrome and plenty of interior height so nobody mashed his hat. The result: Chrysler sales plummeted nearly 50% as the great U.S. car buyer turned to the longest, slinkiest cars he could find. Last week, taking no chances on 1955, Chrysler President Lester L. ("Tex") Colbert showed newsmen a 1955 line that is as long and low as anything on the road...
Innocence by Disassociation. But Candidate Case has had trouble with another issue that turns one way in the nation, another in New Jersey: corruption. Nationally, the most important corruption issue at the height of the campaign is the Federal Housing Administration scandal, a hangover from a Democratic Administration. In New Jersey the old mess in Trenton overshadows the old mess in Washington. Democrats are constantly and joyfully reminding the Republicans and the voters that one recent Republican governor (Harold G. Hoffman, who served in 1935-38) embezzled $300,000 from the state, another G.O.P. governor's executive clerk...
...them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough to be able to defy the Japanese war machine, from his seat in the Diet denounced Nipponese militarism even at the height of Japan's World War II successes...
...answer is that America's intentions are not quite so obvious on the other side of the Pacific. Educated Indians are free with their criticism of what they consider America's support for British and French colonialism. Moreover, anti-American feeling is at such a height as a result of sending U.S. arms to Pakistan, that no Indian leader, even Nehru, would be politically safe in advocating now a more friendly attitude to America...