Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land-Office Business. This caused another phenomenon. Neon-lit slot-machine satellite towns began springing up just outside city limits-Garden City just outside Boise; Jerome, outside Twin Falls; State Line Village just over the boundary from Spokane, Wash. They did a land-office business. Meanwhile, other slot-machine towns assumed new, weird shapes: the village of Crouch, for instance, pushed its limits out in a strip one foot wide and 10 miles long, to make slot machines legal in a distant roadhouse...
...then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
When Floyd B. Odium's Atlas Corp. bought control of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft in 1947, it looked as if Speculator Odium had made a mistake. That year Convair lost $32.4 million on its C-24O twin-engine airliner, proceeded to drop about $11 million more on it in 1948. But even before the Korean war began, Convair's B-36 bomber had become the Air Force's intercontinental bomber and Convair began to make money. From war orders, Convair made $3,700,000 in 1949, more than $10 million...
Once upon a time there were two confused freshmen named Lemnel Q. Fresh and Louella Q. Fresh. They were twin brother and sister, and often forgot which was which. One day, when they were looking for Mallinckrodt, they both wandered into a little brick building at 14 Plympton St. They never got mixed up again...
...Twin Rodney was still listed as in "critical" condition, and would remain so until his brain could be entirely covered with skin flaps to guard against infection. Doctors had pumped half a dozen antibiotics into Rodney, using different combinations to prevent the growth of a resistant strain of germs. They were relieved last week when he got over a mouth infection. But they would not relax until Rodney had another operation to cover his brain...