Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lone highway between the two cities is hopelessly jammed. Planes fly often, but fares are high. And the Old Tokaido Line, opened in 1891, is so clogged with a quarter of the nation's passenger and freight traffic that passengers often reserve seats a fortnight ahead, marshaling yards overflow with goods, and maintenance crews repair tracks, with stopwatch timing, between trains only minutes apart...
...early retirement. Another 2,500 executives, who have what one U.S. Steel official calls "good records and good attitudes," have been rooted up from such outposts as Birmingham, Cleveland and Provo, Utah, leaving behind a surfeit of $35,000 to $50,000 homes. Transferred to Pittsburgh, they now overflow the 41-story headquarters into four other downtown buildings. They have been brought together as part of the corporation's effort to slice through its layer cake of supervisors, consolidate its sprawling divisions and end the costly overlapping of its sales offices. The company has united many of its independent...
Before an overflow crowd at the VAC, the eminent English author spelled out his theory of "The Origin of Forms in Art." Form in art is shape imparted by human action, but unlike shape, he maintained, it has an esthetic connotation...
...Milwaukee and elsewhere, Wallace's reception was less than exuberant. In Oshkosh he was greeted by a jeering band of 400 college students. He endured rough questioning at a meeting with 17 Protestant clergymen. An overflow crowd of 2,000 curiosity-seekers jammed the civic auditorium to hear him preach against the civil rights bill-and to raise placards reading "Go Home, Bigot" and "Keep Your Dogs in Birmingham...
...eyed TV lights glared down at the overflow of spectators lining the marble walls. Photographers jostled and cursed as they tried to get close to Baker, who himself had some difficulty squeezing through to the witness table. Bobby Baker grinned, waved to familiar faces, and, for the moment at least, appeared to be enjoying himself hugely. Finally seated, he extracted a pack of Salems from his coat pocket, laid it carefully alongside the Bible upon which he would soon be sworn in. Next he produced a typewritten sheet of paper and positioned it on the table just...