Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion gallons of sewage and over 8,000 tons of garbage. In winter it needs 20 million gallons of fuel oil. Six million people travel daily on its 237 miles of subway and elevated lines, 1½% million on its surface transport lines. Some 400,000 commuters stream into Manhattan daily from the suburbs of Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester County and Connecticut-a train arrives in its stations every 50 seconds, day & night. Its Departments of Health and Sanitation must eternally anticipate the threat of epidemics...
...brass-blonde chignon, Dorothy Lawlor's busy brain had cased all the angles. She had been married at 15, divorced at 19. She had two kids, no man, and a flock of debts. Now she was 27, and checking hats in Johnny Shields's Midway Inn, Valley Stream, Long Island (pronounced "Long Guyland...
...road, the river, the rooftops, the mountains and the holiday throngs are braided into a clear flowing stream utterly unlike anything Western artists have achieved. The makers of modern documentary movies might learn something from a study of Clear and Bright...
Single Visit. For over ten years a steady stream of diabetics, attracted by the Kaadts' optimistic advertising, passed through the old brothers' clinic. Most of the patients stayed three days ($10 a day) and went home carrying jugs of the "magic medicine" ($30 a gallon). So many hopeful sufferers came that in twelve years the clinic is believed to have done a $6,000,000 business...
...little group sets out on a mission as weird in its way as the quest of Ahab for the white whale. Hennessey is killed in the landing. The others take part in checking a Japanese assault across a narrow stream, get drunk, shoot prisoners, and prowl among the Japanese corpses for souvenirs. They are certain that their wives back home are unfaithful to them, from their own success in seducing other men's wives, and from the number of letters from the States which arrive, telling them that all is over...