Word: houre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before Rocky's trip. But as Rockefeller first arrived on the scene, his every move seemed to be in the wrong direction. Early morning smog forced his plane to land in Burbank, 25 miles from Los Angeles' International Airport and the official reception. After an hour-long trip in a rattletrap bus, Rocky finally caught up with the official welcome from an incongruous dance band (hired by the sea-captain husband of the movies' retired Marion Davies), from a corporal's guard of Cal-Rock boosters, and from National Committeeman Edward Shattuck, who wore...
...convocation of the high-domed American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, members listened closely to papers on such diverse subjects as Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Neurospora and Bastards in the Roman Aristocracy. But the most surprising contribution was a half-hour gem of erudition, illustrated with colored slides, on The Iridescent Colors of Hummingbird Feathers. Author: Crawford H. Greenewalt, 57. whose excursions into advanced ornithology are somehow sandwiched into his workaday duties as president of massive E.I. du Pont de Nemours...
Special attention was devoted to punting, kickoffs, and pass offense, but the usual polishing of offensive and defensive fundamentals occupied most of the two-hour drill under the lights just east of Harvard Stadium...
Admittedly, many of the regulations currently enforced on the nation's railways smack of the days when passenger trains averaged 20 miles per hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent...
...Author Leech shows McKinley as his own man. If he rooted for the trusts, it was because he believed that business and U.S. destiny were on the same path. If he took the U.S. into war and a great-power role, it was because he knew that the hour had struck for isolationism...