Word: hub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...river was down. Cotton was up (26.9? a lb.) and so was the city's population (approx. 375,000). Memphis was the world's greatest cotton market, the hub of ten railroads, three airlines, and a big and busy river port. It had boomed during the war, and it was booming still. Better yet, it was running just the way Edward Hull Crump-the most absolute political boss in the U.S.-wanted...
Yellowknife, spread out over a rocky peninsula and the hub of a 200-sq.-mi. staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds...
...Lincoln Steffens gave me some idea of what to expect of Boston when he told me that the Hub City is the most corrupt community in the country, but I didn't quite expect this. Either Boston papers reflect a degraded level of civic life or they are a direct cause...
...York has a score of emporiums devoted to running off old films, and frankly calling them "revivals." Since Boston's Fine Arts theatre closed last spring, the Hub has had nothing congenerous to the Gotham galaxy; yet old movies can be seen here, too. The trouble is, Boston's entertainment entreprencur's keep trying to put something over on the moviegoers...
...think the "home galaxy" was merely a lens-shaped swarm of stars, revolving majestically in space. Now they think it has a more complicated structure. Last week two University of Virginia astronomers reported that the "red giant" stars seemed to be concentrated in a rough sphere near the hub of the galaxy. The commoner white stars (like the sun) had spread out in a wider, thinner disc. This discovery suggested that the red giants and the white stars may have had different origins. Perhaps all the galaxies had been formed in two great and separate spurts of creation...