Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maoists could hardly afford to leave Wuhan in the hands of their enemies. The fifth largest city in China, Wuhan (pop. 2,800,000) is really three cities-Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang-and is the Chicago of China-the transportation hub of the vast country. Its great double-decked vehicular and railroad bridge is the only span across the 3,100-mile length of the Yangtze between Nanking near the coast and Chungking in the western mountains. It is also one of Communist China's key industrial centers, pouring a quarter of the country's steel and producing...
Three generations of North End Italians have hung out in Mazza's Pool Room. Friday nights after the Hub Lanes down on Hanover Street close there isn't any place else to go. Besides, it's only ten cents a rack (a line of candlepins will cost 35 cents) and Uncle, who took over Mazza's from a relative five months ago, sees to it that no one gets badly hustled...
...things I really like here is the Harvard Band." Considering the adventuresomeness of the program, that's quite a compliment. For once the Band managed to communicate a sense of enthusiasm throughout the program, not just when playing the old standards. As a concert Band, the HUB is definitely coming...
Chicago grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
Without Coffee. The commuter lines can. The economical Beech planes that HUB will use need only 3.1 passengers to break even. The flight is generally more expensive than a similar flight on a jet, and there are no hostesses, coffee, tea or milk. What the commuter craft does is provide transport for businessmen anxious to negotiate deals...