Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble. Goaded by the U.N.'s punishment of their supply lines, the Communists are striking back with massive air power of their own. Since September, they have built up their air force to 1,400 Russian-made planes. About 700 of them are MIG-15 jet fighters. "Almost overnight, China has become one of the major air powers of the world," said Vandenberg. "Our control of the air in north west Korea, although by no means lost, is not as firm...
Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, who had taken advantage of the Secretary's absence to give Dewey the go-ahead.) It was a heady exploit, and made an overnight hero of Admiral Dewey; the headaches came later...
...fare during the offseason months when travel is lighter. On all tourist flights the airlines expect to carry about one-third more passengers (e.g., 82 on a DC-6B, 60 on a Constellation), charge passengers for meals and do away with such frills as a free bar and free overnight bags...
...October 12, representatives of the University and the City Council met to formulate a plan to improve the overnight parking situation around Harvard Square. Both sides agreed that some action would have to be taken by the city to provide for more legal parking...
...self-perpetuating is not because of "machine politics" or "propaganda" but because it is composed of people who sincerely want to see good government continued in Cambridge. If those in the professions, in education, thought that the CCA was no longer good for Cambridge, then the CCA would collapse overnight...