Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman "Pat" Kearney wanted to get out and tour his Upper New York State district. On his first day back home in Gloversville, he had visited his widowed mother in the old white house where she takes in roomers. Then he had gone to the local headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, where, as its onetime national commander, he is heard with respect. He hoped to get out to see his constituents in industrial Schenectady, in the hilly resort country of Hamilton County. But first he had to face a union delegation headed by the C.I.O. United Leather Workers...
...Collapse. The campaign in western Sicily was all but over. Other ports fell: Marsala and Trapani, naval bases where there was no Italian Navy and no fight on land; Termini, Imerese and Cefalú, east of Palermo on the upper coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno...
Born into a moderately well-to-do family of the upper middle class, Ingrid Bergman is, in addition, a European gentlewoman, who has lived less among the stultified members of her class than among the cultivated, the flexible, the gifted and the gay. As such, in Europe, she would be no more than an idealization of an attractive, not uncommon type. As such, in the U.S., she is as noticeable as a Negro President...
...school students hold jobs. In Connecticut cities (Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, New Britain) 4,748 out of 17,295 students work outside school hours-apart from those in street trades and domestic jobs. Half of 10,213 Seattle high-school students are working part time. Over 60% of the upper graders in a Pennsylvania school had jobs, as did 92% of the seniors in a Midwestern boys' technical school. In 1940 there were about 1,000,000 14-17-year-olds at work; now there are about...
...years Chicago's State Street Council has been among the world's proudest trade associations. Its members are the great midwestern merchants (Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward...