Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a reporter is TIME'S Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard (TIME, April 16, 1951). Aside from reading some 50 scientific journals each month, plus following an endless flow of reports and pamphlets, Leonard is constantly packing his bag, catching a train or plane to go to the source of a particular story for interviews and firsthand observation. These trips may range from a short visit to The Bronx Zoo (to spy on the activities of a surly platypus) to a 600-m.p.h. night flight in a radar-guided F94 to tell the story of the jet interceptors guarding...
...just completed the weekly stem-to-stern inspection, had pronounced the "Leading Lady" (the crew's name for the Leyte) shipshape. Then, suddenly, the big ship shook and a dull explosion roared over the yard. It sounded, said Captain Thomas A. Ahroon, "like the rumble of a subway train." The ship's clock stopped...
Last week, after seeing his old boss off to his train, President McCann was percolating plans as hard as ever ("I can dream, can't I?). Among his dreams: a new office building, a chapel, a field house, two dormitories, a $1,000,000 endowment, at least 300 students...
...independents' share of total output had dropped from 12.5% last April to 3.8%. All manufacturers were putting the pressure on their dealers to take more cars. Many an oldtimer was not afraid to turn them down. But some of the Johnny-come-latelies who climbed aboard the gravy train after the war, and never knew competition, were loaded up too heavily and went out of business. Others resorted to razzle-dazzle gimmicks such as offering cars for "$1 over cost" (special invoices, of course, were made up to show the "cost"), or giving out free gasoline and insurance...
...chirruping home from his desk at the bank one Monday to find that it is not Monday at all-it is Tuesday. Somehow, 24 hours of his life have got lost. To make matters worse, a man was murdered on Richardson's psychological day off and a powder train of explosive evidence leads straight to his door...