Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for many of the hardiest; on the second day, thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard Gimbel conferred with Mayor Robert Wagner, posed for pictures as they rode the sometimes operative subway back to their monster department stores to prove that it could be done...
Metal Spare Tire. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has developed a flat, rubber-rimmed metal spare tire that takes up little room in the trunk, can easily be bolted on the hub over a flat tire by raising the wheel off the pavement with a jack. The motorist can drive as far as 100 miles on the tire at speeds of up to 45 m.p.h...
...constructing a hideous paradox. Even as the British prisoners, with proper pride, are drawing plans for their structure, a British Commando unit is hatching a plot to blow it up. As the bridge mounts, so does the suspense. For every timber that slides into place, the raiders (William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Geoffrey Home) make another march to their goal. As in some awful myth, as in all human history, creation and destruction keep inexorable step. They collide in a conclusion that will be for many almost a shattering experience-and yet a curiously exalting one as well...
Cover Charge. In Winston-Salem.N.C., arrested for hitting a man with an ax. Leonard ("Jack") Spease, 39, said: "I thought he would duck...
...Jack Spoons could eat no prunes; His wife could eat no quinces...