Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
...muggy season was setting in for Broadway's 18 surviving shows, and the U.S. theater got ready again last week to take to the country. By month's end, in such unlikely pastures as Fish Creek, Wis. and Woods Hole, Mass., more than 200 summer playhouses will sprout across the land. By Labor Day, they should yield a multimillion-dollar harvest-and more acting jobs than three Manhattan seasons...
Proceed wifh Caution. Once celebrated as a playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
...team was proving in its U.S. tour: that competition can be fun and that a good athlete does not have to train to razor fineness to make a respectable showing. This week, Bannister & Co. planned to do better against a combined Harvard-Yale squad, but their day in Cambridge, Mass, would not be spoiled if they...
...million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...