Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drop in world markets brought about by Soviet peace maneuvers, Churchill believes that protracted East-West peace discussions would reduce defense spending and might start a recession. With new elections to extend their power another five years, the Tories would have enough time to batten down the economy and ride out the possible storm...
Seizing his first opportunity, Conant hitched a ride into New York in the back of a CBS-TV film truck, stationed at the airport to record his arrival...
...Stars and Stripes spokesman added, "It was a good clean enterprise. We'd like to promote him. After all-he's a soldier as well as a correspondent--maybe he was just hitching a ride off the islands...
Italy last week put into daily service between Milan, Rome and Naples the most modern train in Europe. Known as the ETR 300, it gives passengers the thrill of "riding with the engineer" at 60 m.p.h. in a radically different locomotive that is also an observation car. The passengers actually ride ahead of the engineer; he runs the electric train from a dome behind them...
...keep the going smooth and silent, the tram has 240 rubber shock absorbers that cut jarring to a minimum, provide a ride almost completely free of vibration. Cost of a Milan-to-Naples oneway ticket: about $21.40-$3.50 more than other fast trains...