Word: pedestrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently, as a seemingly endless column of NTS (Communications) men cadenced their way across the busy intersection near Littauer, the usual traffic and pedestrian jams resulted on either side of the khaki-clad marchers. Suddenly one of the feminine onlookers gave a deep sigh and exclaimed to her friend...
...Southwest Pacific Theater, where he was Chief of Staff for Air after Pearl Harbor, Ralph Royce's showing had been only soso. Army airmen charged pedestrian performance more to a generally inept air command than to personal failure...
Backward, Turn Backward. In San Francisco, a pedestrian stopped by Police Inspector George Page explained why he was walking backward: "I like to read the expressions on the faces of the people who are following me." Subject for Study. In Hackensack, N.J., county jailers greeted Rose Mann, charged with assault & battery, studied her 360 pounds, studied their cell doors, arranged for her release without bail...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah was riding high (literally - on a dais mounted on a Dodge truck) when his Moslem League convened in Delhi in April. Never before in the League's hitherto pedestrian history had his followers turned out in such numbers...
Traffic Hazard. In Richmond, Calif., when Autoist Charles Foley made a slow left turn, meticulously hand-signaling out the window, he lost his wrist watch to a light-fingered pedestrian...