Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ahead Manhattan's new Coliseum already has another 36 shows booked into its halls at rentals ranging from $10,000 to $23,000 for the average two week periods. Next winter Detroit's automakers will hold their first big industry-wide auto show since 1940, spend millions to introduce 1957 models. Hardware dealers, popcorn concessionaires, plastic makers, the hotel and oil industries are all piling in. There will also be a big sewing exhibit, a National Baby & Child Show and an International Sanitation & Maintenance Show this year. All told, the Coliseum expects that rental and concession fees...
...retirement soon, but the railroad has begun stalling, and 3713, the last of 25 P-4's built in 1935 for heavy express service, may pull a few more trains, after all. Rail fans speculate that the railroad, which has excused its decision on account of "the heavy winter," may wait for a while because of its recent difficulty with the Budd RDC's, single-unit, diesel cars...
Civil War Hero V. A. Antonov-Ovseyenko (he led the Bolshevik attack on the Winter Palace in the 1917 uprising in Leningrad) was recalled from Barcelona where he was a Soviet military adviser during the Spanish civil war, hauled out of his train by the NKVD. so the story went, and shot beside the tracks...
Even when he stepped down from his job as editor of the Christian Century last winter, Paul Hutchinson had no thought of retiring from his ministry. There were still more books that he wanted to write, uncounted lectures yet to deliver. His trip through the South was only partly vacation. Worried over the current crisis of desegregation, his host in New Orleans, a Protestant minister, tried to convince him that his only job was to throw oil on troubled waters. Dr. Hutchinson was adamant. Said he: "I am going to praise the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New Orleans...
Forbidden Planet. For earthlings with that end-of-winter feeling: spring cruise at speed of light to Altair-4-small, out-of-the-way planet with two moons, green sky, pink sand, personal robot service. Caution: pack a rocket pistol. Occasional monsters (TIME, April...