Word: locusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria forsk) has made its name dread to generations of African and Middle Eastern farmers from Biblical times down to the recent destructive plague of locusts in Iran...
After World War II the thinly populated (589,000) logging-mining-farming state of Idaho found itself surrounded east, west and south by a locust-like infestation of rattling slot machines. The one-armed bandits ran legally in Nevada and (until last year) in Washington, and clanged away illegally but just as noisily in Montana and Wyoming. Some of them ran illegally in Idaho, too, but even so, the state legislature began visualizing whole creeks of Idaho money rushing away into the voracious slots of neighboring states...
Back in 1917 the city of Philadelphia set to work to build a subway line down Locust Street, which runs through Philadelphia's main business district. The resulting excavations kept large parts of Locust Street in a turmoil until work on the project was interrupted in 1918 by World War I shortages. After the war, digging started again, and the tunnel was finally finished in 1933 at a cost of $6,000,000. But what with the Depression and World War II, the city just never got around to putting the Locust Street subway into operation...
About two years ago, however, the city government went to work on Locust Street again, spending another $2,500,000 in the process. Last week the first trains finally ran through the Locust Street tunnel (providing a high-speed connection between the business district and Camden, N.J. via the Delaware River Bridge). But nobody had any such hopes for another ancient and expensive Philadelphia subway hole in the ground, the Arch Street tunnel, used only as a storage place for rivets and old rails since its excavation...
Hunt Tilford Dickinson, of New York City and Locust Valley, L.I., whose principal occupation is to take care of his investments, told TIME he had nothing to say about his old roommate. But all of them remember Rabbit with affection. Although every one of them is now a Republican, one says flatly that he will vote for him, and some of the others are wavering...