Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bound by 8 a.m. Thursday. Wherever planes were available, they were used to carry copies to population centers farthest from the printing plants-to Texas, Florida, Washington, Maine. One American Airlines plane was scheduled to carry 6,700 copies of TIME to Buffalo on a regular flight just after midnight Wednesday; another was chartered to carry 36,000 copies to Dallas, where they would be redistributed by air express to other Texas cities. Because this issue of TIME-136 pages-is one of the largest ever published, planes had to cut down on the number of copies they could haul...
...seven voters of Millsfield, N.H. (pop. 16) stayed up late on election eve and marked their ballots just as soon as the clock struck midnight. Everybody had gathered in the parlor of Mrs. Genevieve N. Annis' 125-year-old house well ahead of time, and the votes were cast, in the light of kerosene lamps, amid a fine, conspiratorial atmosphere. Mrs. Annis, the town clerk, collected and counted them quickly, recorded one absentee ballot, and, at 12:02 o'clock, proudly reported the nation's first election returns (eight votes for Eisenhower...
...Midnight. The Republican tide rose higher in the West, washed back through the East and welled deeper into the crumbling South. By 11:20, Ike led in 34 states with 352 electoral votes, including 20 states carried by Harry Truman in 1948. The popular vote: Eisen hower 8,544,000, Stevenson...
...payment of $17 bail shortly before midnight, Hinds and Pratt were released...
Rank & Fashion. Lyons spends most of his time in the Coventry works, is usually on the floor from 9 a.m. "until the work is finished, even if it's midnight." In Britain's often unimaginative industrial hierarchy, bustling Bill Lyons sticks out, looks and talks more like a Detroit auto builder. A three-time visitor to the U.S., he has picked up Yankee ways, pops out press releases that would make a sedate company like Rolls-Royce quiver in embarrassment. Sample: "Mr. Clark Gable has [owned four] Jaguars; Mr. Adam Gimbel has two ... To visit the New York...