Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love to move.'' says Parrish. "In New York I set out to walk up and down every avenue and across every side street in Manhattan. I never finished, but I covered a good deal of it. I also set out to travel every mile of the subway, but I never finished that either. But I have traveled in every state in the U.S. and visited every state capital.'' Parrish's current goal is to land at every U.S. airport served by a scheduled airline. His score: 505, with...
...approved a new 42-hour week for insurance employees−but provided that they work from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. without a luncheon break. Once the shock passed, the workers welcomed the change: abolishing the two-hour lunch would mean for thousands of them only two subway or bus trips a day instead of four. And hard-up Spanish workers, most of whom must hold two jobs in order to make ends meet, now had their "afternoons" free for side jobs. At week's end Spain's major banks announced that they would probably change over...
...Bridgeport, Conn., Mosler Safe Co. has installed a closed television circuit and loudspeaker system connecting an indoor teller's cage with a curbside depositor's booth. Deposits and receipts are sped through a 100-ft. pneumatic tube. Mosler plans eventually to install remote-control bank booths at subway and rail stations, main intersections...
Fissioning in the Subway. Another key question was whether uranium atoms ever fission spontaneously-an important factor in weighing the feasibility of practical bombmaking. Theorists said that spontaneous fission ought to take place, but excellent experimental men in the U.S. were unable for a considerable time to prove that it did. The first to prove it (in 1940) were two young Russians, Flerov and Petrzhak, who did their work (to protect their experiment from the intrusion of cosmic rays) in the depths of Moscow's ornate subway...
...real trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home, he wars with his besotted...