Word: towing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overnight. Police Lieutenant Lark Cunningham said last night that some patrolmen had found old parking tags torn up in the street, which prompted the "clean-up" campaign. Policemen in a squad car in the Harvard Square district also reportedly told one student last night that they "were going to tow away several automobiles...
Sullivan said he was in favor of passing legislation to permit police to tow away illegally parked automobiles. Existing ordinances allow police to remove automobiles only after the issuance of a third summons. Finding of the committee will be presented to the Council Monday...
...queen of fashion, though in recent years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops in Birmingham or Liverpool. In Paris none...
...China is the comparative lack of installations which are worth bombing. South and Central China where most of the people live is served by a network of waterways which make railroads largely unnecessary. The significant thing about the Canton-Hankow line is not that a single track connects these tow major centers but that a single track is all they need between them in "normal" times...
...cynical, power-hungry leadership. Actually, it is the unification set in motion by these enthusiasms . . . that transmutes noble impulses into a reality of hatred and violence . . ." If there is a God, and I believe there is. He certainly wants His creations to remain individuals rather than kow-tow en masse to any supposedly edifying influence...