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Parking for Women. The new centers, like many of the mammoth suburban shopping areas that have sprung up in the last ten years, are designed to siphon shoppers from an entire region. Mondawmin, for example, is the most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even...
...Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," and wound up as governor. Now 66, O'Daniel has dusted off his old platform (in favor of the Ten Commandments and the golden rule). Nobody expects him to win, but liberals and conservatives alike wonder anxiously how many of their votes he might siphon...
...Play, No Pay. Before the major leagues started to siphon off their stars, the Negro circuits had enough good players to fill a Negro-American and National League. From May to October the "bus" leagues zigzagged across the U.S. Their buses were rolling dormitories: seats, aisles and luggage racks did double duty as beds. Often there was no time for a meal stop, and sometimes no restaurant would serve a colored team. Then the players would carve up a big bologna and make sandwiches as they rolled along. Eating money, when Campy started...
Nobody is more concerned about water than U.S. industry, which already uses about 80 billion gallons daily, will siphon off 200 billion gallons daily (exclusive of water power) by 1975. Whatever the product, the choice of any plant site often depends on how much fresh water is available. After World War II, for example, General Motors wanted to take over a Lima (Ohio) plant that it had operated for the Government, but backed out because it could not get a guarantee of future water supplies. Ford Motor Co. built a huge new plant at Walton Hills, outside Cleveland, but only...
Before any such expansion of Adams, though, extensive renovations must be made. The Adams library is already overcrowded, but a subsidiary study room in the unused rooms on Claverly's first floor would siphon off the extra students. The Adams dining hall is also filled now, but with alterations, it could accommodate the added diners. Without these changers, dumping Claverly on Adams would make a merely uncomfortable situation into an impossible...