Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...move their belongings into the neat, three-room concrete cottages on the spring-green Judean slopes. There was still the familiar hard readjustment: "I lived in a third-floor apartment-and now look," exclaimed a clerk from Budapest, thrusting out hands blistered by operating a pneumatic drill with a road-building crew. But now newcomers are guaranteed 250 days' work at regular wages instead of the old immigrant's dole, and promised their own individual plots to cultivate as soon as they reclaim enough land. And to get them further used to what life in Israel is like...
...keep them waiting long. Even before he flew back from a brief holiday in Bermuda, the government's Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources was at work on a massive $250 million road-building program designed to open up the Far North, give substance to the Prime Minister's fervent, oft-voiced "vision of national destiny." The nation's farmers, hit by sagging income since 1952, were temporarily propped up by new federal price supports in six key commodities. The new Tory government was off to a running start-and taking an excited nation with...
...awards in one season. He was also a walking contradiction to his own observation that "any man who becomes a producer is a damned fool." Two Bloomgarden hits of 1955 and 1956, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Most Happy Fella-also Critics Circle award winners-still have road companies going strong. "Together, the four shows net over $40,000 a week," grins Bloomgarden, "but, of course...
...time he had turned 16, Herbert O. Yardley had a head start down the road to juvenile delinquency. His mother died and left him $200, and his father left him to fend for himself. Furthermore, he had a taste for high life in the local saloons, and at the turn of the century, Worthington, Ind. was loaded with them. But Herbert was saved by sport. Monty, the boss of his favorite barroom, was a gambler who taught his young customer the finer points of that great indoor game-poker...
...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...