Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significant new details of the latest construction orders for the Lamont Library were outlined yesterday, even as a small observation post was opened for the edification of would be sidewalk superintendents who seek a birdseye view of successive stages in the erection...
...Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
...most densely peopled places in the western world. Social workers have often found as many as 20 men, women & children living in a single four-room flat. Beds are used in shifts. By day, the area's streets teem with children. In almost every block there is a sidewalk gambling game. By night, the streets crawl with idlers and men & women back from jobs as dishwashers, laundry helpers, needle-workers. The average wage for Spanish Harlem: about $30 a week...
...Rocking-Chair Set. In Long Beach, Calif., cops were looking for two elderly women who had purred down a sidewalk in their electric motor chair, had run over and fatally injured a 73-year-old lady...
...hurry. He lingered over a red and black number, asked Bloch what he thought of it. Finally he selected a red scarf with yellow dots and a yellow one with red dots. He paid, picked up his package and walked out on to Madero's narrow sidewalk. An Indian lottery-ticket seller murmured "Good day, Mr. President." "Yes, but too hot," grinned Aleman. But most passers-by brushed past without noticing. A few looked back startled, not quite believing what they saw-for until recently Mexico had seen its Presidents only behind lines of guards...