Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildings to 121 ft. (exceptions: monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur and Notre Dame), and its famed rows of low roofs are part of its serene charm. But last week, plans were under way for a 52-story skyscraper on the site of the old railroad station, Gare Montparnasse. As a gesture to the bohemians of Montparnasse, the promoters promised, in addition to a 1,000-room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind of art could be produced...
Chumakov began brewing Sabin-type vaccine at the Institute for the Study of Poliomyelitis, a rambling frame building among the railroad yards on Moscow's outskirts. Last week he was readying the world's biggest test of live polio vaccine, had 300 liters on ice-enough for 10 million people. No small operators, Chumakov and colleagues dreamed of immunizing all the Soviet Union's 200 million people regardless of age (600 million doses, since vaccine for one strain of each of polio's three main virus types is given in separate swigs, a month apart). Satellite...
...reason for the inventory buildup is plain: consumer appetites are getting bigger. Out of General Electric's Appliance Park in Louisville went the biggest shipment ever-400 railroad cars with 22,000 appliances tagged at $5,500,000. Appliance makers noted sales running about 15% ahead of 1958 as consumers loaded up with refrigerators, washing machines, and gas and electric ranges. Much of the buying was for new houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged...
There is insiderable talk in railroad circles these days that only one bold measure can possibly save the New Haven from financial ruin. Theorists suggest that if Mr. Alpert started running special trains for professors travelling to fulfill television commitments, he would halt the deepening slump in his company's passenger revenues...
PRIX INTERALLIÉ. Apparently outraged that any prizewinner should offer nothing but light entertainment, one commentator damned Bertrand Poirot-Delpech's Le Grand Dadais as "an amusing trifle to take on a short railroad journey." Reminiscent of a Roger Vadim script for a Bardot movie, Le Grand Dadais takes a delinquent schoolboy and a beautiful but dumb stripteaser on a Riviera whirl-all financed with stolen money. Before the boy winds up in the pen, the judge asks: "Is it Mademoiselle Sagan who has put all these ideas in your head?" Answers the accused: "I don't want...