Word: metering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress and state legislatures had appropriated millions to build super highways on which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes - and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, he circled the 400-meter track, with an easy, familiar stride. From the spectators came a delighted roar of applause for one of the most unforgettable of all Olympians: Finland's Paavo Nurmi, now 55, and in his Olympic days (1920-28) the greatest distance runner in the world. Stopping at the base of the giant urn, Nurmi stretched high to set it ablaze with fire relayed across Europe from Olympia. The 1952 Olympics had begun...
...least part of these claims is substantiated by the record books. Compared with the man generally considered the outstanding athlete of all time, Mathias outruns, outjumps and out-throws Indian Jim Thorpe* in nine of the ten decathlon events. The exception (see chart) the 1,500-meter...
...Million. By that time it was so dark that the only light in the stadium was the Olympic flame, glowing dully through the fog. Mrs. Mathias, huddled patiently in the stands, watched the start of the 1,500-meter race, at 10:30: "We could see the orange spurt when the gun started the runners, but the fog was so dense we could see nothing else." Fighting foot cramps and a sick stomach, Bob staggered across the finish line five minutes and eleven seconds later to clinch his title. When he got his wind back and found his mother...
...engineers were amazed to discover that there were no meters in Tokyo. The system was for householders to pay a standard sum for a stipulated amount of current. Many householders, as everybody knew, let neighbors tap in, for a profitable though illegal fee. At first, the Americans insisted on meters to stop the malpractice. Japanese officials patiently explained that they could not afford the outlay for meters and meter inspectors. Anyway, they said, inspectors would only make deals with householders and falsify reports, while householders would install meter jumpers and keep on subselling current. "Why go through with all this...