Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
...reasonable price, Harvester plans to buy the $71-million RFC plant outside Chicago in Melrose Park, where Buick has been building plane motors...
...Rockingham Park (N.H.) race track, one day last week, three betters split $25,843 on a daily double. It was Page One news in Boston...
...show, the Carnegie International, was really international, only a handful of Americans could break in. France's Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Derain usually won top honors. During the war, Carnegie went all-American. Last week, in its Romanesque stone-pile set in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, the Carnegie Institute put on what will presumably be its last purely U.S. show, and invited 350 U.S. artists-the most ever-to show their wares. It was still, in prestige at least, the biggest annual U.S. art event, as it has been since...
...Roosevelt's Press Conference Association last week voted itself into limbo. It bundled up its files to send to the Roosevelt Memorial Library in Hyde Park, where the girls hoped they would make a footnotelet to history. With just $65 left in their treasury, they voted to buy a flossy scroll for Mrs. R.: "To Eleanor Roosevelt . . . the first President's wife whose far-reaching activities for human good warranted regular press conferences. . . ." Then, just when Washington newshens had about given up hope of ever perching in the White House again, they received their first diplomatic recognition from...