Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show called Let's Go Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows he is really frightened. One feels just what he must be feeling...
Although a city ordinance prohibits overnight parking the area surrounding Lowell House had been relatively free until Thursday's early morning drive...
Cambridge police yesterday began on intensified campaign to rid the streets of overnight parkers. The blow fell mainly on students with more than 60 tickets distributed on lower Plympton and Mill Streets...
...readers talk, you can soon tell them what to say"). He warned his editors that he did not "believe in hobnobbing with politicians," demanded that the paper be independent and make up its own mind. When circulation gains were slow, Northcliffe slashed the price from threepence to a penny, overnight tripled sales. "I hear that the Old Lady of Printing House Square," he chortled, "gathered up her skirts and shrieked as at the sight of a man under the bed in the face of a real increase in demand for the Times for the first time since her middle...
When Harry Truman seized the steel industry, he gave as one of his reasons the "fact" that steel was so short that a strike would stop the flow of supplies to Korea almost overnight. This week it is plain that, despite the 2,500,000-ton loss from the short-lived strikes, there is still so much steel that some varieties of it are begging for buyers. And while Washington and the steelmakers battle over a price rise, many steel prices are already being slashed by middlemen...