Word: shuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as schoolchildren slammed textbooks shut and hit the beckoning streets with shouts and shenanigans, New York's finest, 23,657 strong, hit the streets to do battle...
...much coin. The latest of the show bizites to feel the pinch are Manhattan's Lou Walters, whose "six-stage, super-Broadway showcase," Café de Paris, is deep in the red after only a month's operation, and Brooklyn's Ben Maksik, who last week shut down his cavernous Town & Country Club (TIME, April 7) for the summer, at the same time filed a petition in bankruptcy...
...basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln, N.H. In the logging camps and offices, Sherm Adams was known as a rugged woodsman and boss who worked ceaselessly and kept his mouth shut. To Rachel White, the lively, attractive girl he married in 1923, Sherm was known fondly as "the Great Stone Face...
...seconds, the giant rocket engines quaked and thundered on the stands some 15 miles northeast of Sacramento, Calif., spewing smoke, steam and mud over the revetments. Suddenly the test director shut off the liquid fuel that had produced an awesome 300,000 lbs. of total thrust from the two biggest rocket engines ever developed in the U.S., the main unit for the 5,500-mile Titan ICBM. "O.K.," said the director to a visitor, in the silence that followed. "Now you can go over and see the solid-propellant guys...
When a Teamsters' strike shut off circulation of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer and the nearby Camden Courier-Post, all three managements decided to get out their papers anyway, and hope the customers would come to them. Last week, as the strike entered its third week, the customers were still coming in droves. Long lines patiently queued up all day in the lobbies of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer in downtown Philadelphia. In Camden, just across the Delaware River, traffic jammed bumper to bumper around the Courier-Post's building to buy copies from vendors, who have included...