Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deepfreeze. A few miles down the road, Bob Orr finished washing up at the sink and lowered his big, shirtless frame into a new upholstered chair in his living room. "We've worked hard and we're proud of it, but we figure we have earned everything we got," he said. Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen-an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets. He has "three or four" radios around the house, including a radio-phonograph for the kids; his four barns...
Another West Coast regional magazine, Pacific Pathways (circ. 21,000), a four-color vacation magazine aimed at the California tourist trade, came to the end of the road. Last week, it sold its title and subscription lists to Fortnight (circ...
...long-suffering commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan on the dependably undependable Long Island Rail Road, the line is the target of countless bitter jokes-many founded on fact. In their time, the Long Island's trains have been delayed by stray dogs, wet leaves on the tracks, and sea gulls short-circuiting transformers. Its trains sometimes take the wrong switch and "get lost." Last week the comedy was taken to court. The Long Island's officers marched into Brooklyn's Federal Court and declared the road bankrupt, the first U.S. Class 1 railroad...
...Deal. The Long Island's troubles were caused by: 1) poor management; 2) the preponderance of passenger traffic over money-making freight traffic; and 3) the recent rise in operating costs. Never a rich road (it had gone bankrupt twice before), it had nevertheless managed to make money between...
...made the economy possible by doing a lot of work such as designing and making sets and costumes on our own, whereas last year we hired professional help." Much of the $50,000 expense of the 1948 show was incurred when the show went on the road. This year all presentations will be confined to the Pudding Building on Holyoke street...