Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced competing nightclubs to open late) playing mellow arrangements of such favorites as Muskrat Ramble, Honeysuckle Rose and Up a Lazy River. Swinging on into Cambodia, the band performed for 25,000 milling fans in front of King Norodom Suramarit's palace, later cut loose in a special jam session for 100 invited diplomats and Cambodian royalty held in the palace's ornate ballroom. Grateful King Suramarit decorated Benny with the Order of Chevalier de Monisaraphon...
...wish something exciting would happen," Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse, 20, wrote his family from Suez. Life after the cease-fire was getting monotonous for a young officer doing his national service with the British forces in Egypt. His father, a prosperous jam and preserves manufacturer from Leeds, read the letter in a taxi en route to a business engagement in London and smiled at his eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they read. It wasn...
Next Year's Hotel. With another better-than-ever season ahead, hotelmen already have a new worry: Where can they get land for more hotels? Hotels now jam every inch of the commercially available beach front; the rest, about one mile of beach front, is zoned for private estates. To build the Fontainebleau and the Eden Roc, waivers had to be secured allowing private-land to be put to commercial use; for its site the Americana had to go six miles north of Lincoln Road-the Beach's main stem-to Bal Harbour, which is, strictly speaking, outside...
...Valley (TIME, Dec. 17), fell from its normal (9 ft.) level to a bottom-scraping 6 ft., thus forcing the carriers to lighten their loads if they were to proceed. For the shippers the lightening was time-consuming and expensive (up to $1,000,000 a month). But the jam-up was even more critical to Chicagoans: as winter approached, it threatened them with a fuel crisis, since many of the barges carry coal...
...Great Lakers: a temporary (through Jan. 31) increase to 8,500 cu. ft. a second. The effects were magical. Within hours, twelve oil barges started northward from New Orleans, and by week's end, as Army engineers opened the Chicago and inland locks in easy stages, the jam-up at Alton lock was well on its way to being eased...