Word: winterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...snow-ringed oasis in the midst of nowhere was once a quiet summer resort. Today the town has 5,000 year-round residents, two weekly newspapers, a radio station, and a busy branch of the Bank of America. Even in winter, a parade of chain-clad cars and as many as 30 Greyhound buses a day clank up the mountain road carrying the marks (Harrah refunds $6 of the $7.45 fare). Almost singlehanded, greying Bill Harrah has put the grey-flannel org man on top of a world that once belonged to the flashy lone wolf with fast fingers...
...vacation time now," is his answer. "Visit us again in the fall or winter. Then, of course, there will be more students...
...Over the winter Tomy Lee seemed in bad trouble. He had to be fired twice for leg ailments, was out of action for two months when his forefoot became infected. But by Derljy Day he was plainly...
...island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...
...construction techniques improve, prices dip and banks grow more willing to finance pools as readily as cars, backyard swimming pools are spreading across the rest of the country. Construction in northeast and midwest states (where pools often double as skating rinks in winter) will increase on an average of 70% over last year, and in southwest and mountain states a 61% increase in construction is expected in 1959. A 20-ft. by 40-ft. pool that cost $15,000 before World War II can now be bought...