Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that train service might soon cease. Midtown telephone switchboards glowed and twinkled with extra calls. Business firms dismissed employes hours early. In trickles, then torrents, the city's half-million commuters headed for trains. So did thousands of nervous travelers. By 3 o'clock (Eastern Standard Time), vast, gloomy Penn Station was jammed. Both levels at Grand Central were packed with rumpled, sweating, anxious crowds...
...reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan's masses launched on a three-day fete involving much shooting, soothsaying, and the consumption of vast quantities of stuffed peppers with soda...
...days when American commercial air policy was being set, President Truman had shown no particular interest in it. He had let the Civil Aeronautics Board plot the course and fly the plane. But last week, to the vast discomfiture of Pan American Airways, the President took over-plane, pilot...
...President's request, Food Ambassador Hoover would continue his famine mission by a trip to South America to spur contributions there. But the hope of the world was still the vast U.S. granary. Would the U.S. keep its promise to win the race...
Five days later the significance of his speech became clear. From Washington came word of a joint arctic defense plan for the U.S. and Canada. It was based on the military premise that Canada's vast northland might become a battleground in another war. Operation Musk-Ox (TIME, May 20) had proved that the north was no longer impassable or impregnable. It had also proved that Canada had not yet developed the proper equipment for warfare there...