Word: station
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flags & Cold Tea. Then the re-indoctrination for the U.S.-brand of democracy went awry. Some 500 of the repatriates were shuttled on to their native Kyoto. To the old city's railway station trooped a crowd of official greeters. All was carefully planned, including the serving of tea by the local women's club. But Kyoto's Communists moved into the party and made it their own show...
...thing you; you beast . . .!" screamed redheaded Mrs. Reseda Corrigan as she put the finger on suave, unrumpled Sigmund Engel, 73, in a Chicago police station. Engel, she charged, had charmed her out of $8,700. That, Engel modestly admitted, was nothing. In 50 years of polished wooing, he figured he had extracted "millions-maybe $5 or $6 million" from gullible women. Police couldn't begin to list all the women he had taken to wife, but back in 1927, the dossier showed more than 40 marriages. Finally caught up, Confidence Man Engel was willing to reveal a few professional...
...automobiles rushed rich mainland occupants to recently acquired business and government offices. Well-groomed Chinese women cluttered restaurants and shops, jammed sidewalk money-exchange booths, displaying rolls of crisp U.S. dollar notes. Thousands of Chinese soldiers, with the defeat of Shanghai just behind them, camped in the cavernous railroad station or roamed the streets. Civilians and soldiers (1,500,000 in number) were refugees from the communism now flooding south across China. They were also a troublesome burden to a people who wanted their island home for themselves...
While he was in charge of the observatory's station in Arequipa, Peru, Campbell began intensive work with amateur astronomers. Cut off from the rest of the world, he began to correspond with observers all over the U.S. Today, as permanent recording secretary for the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Campbell receives some 3,000 reports on observations a month from the 250 members in all parts of the world. In the past 37 years he has collected and plotted nearly 1,150,000 such reports...
...unions until the FCC's postwar decision to open a new band for FM transmitters made the gamble seem worthwhile. Publicity-conscious unions were in the forefront of the scrambling applicants for construction permits. In the past year, the United Auto Workers have gone on the air with station WDET in Detroit, and this month will open WCUO in Cleveland. The I.L.G.W.U. beams its message to the South through Chattanooga's WVUN, and last November invaded the West Coast with Los Angeles' KFMV, "the FM Voice of Southern California." Fifteen other union applications with FCC have either...