Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Using such symbols, weather prophets may or may not convince the public that they really know the difference between a snowstorm, say, and a Scotch mist. But it is doubtful that they will ever adequately replace NBC-TV's Tedi Thurman, who once announced: "The temperature in New York...
...nation's railroads, many of which have been chugging along unspectacularly, have finally begun to pick up steam from the economic boom. The two biggest U.S. roads, the Pennsylvania and the New York Central, last week reported climbing profits. The Pennsy's $4,512,912 profit for May (34? a share) set a 2½-year record, changed the big road's $2,264,466 deficit at the beginning of the month into a solid profit for the year's first five months. For the third month in a row, the Central's earnings were...
FIVE years ahead of schedule, Quesada has set up radar-controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...
...impress the U.S. with Soviet "science, technology and culture." the Russians opened a trade fair in Manhattan's Coliseum this week-the first big exhibit of Soviet wares in the U.S. since the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Soviet Union spent more than $10 million on the New York show, which touches on nearly every aspect of Russian life from art and ballet to city planning, and sent their First Deputy Premier Frol Koslov (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to preside at the opening. The 10,000 exhibits are good, bad and indifferent by U.S. standards; the overall...
Tobaccoless Cigarettes. A new cigarette that contains a combination of processed natural fibers instead of tobacco is being test-marketed by Bantob Products of New York. Called Vanguard, the loosely packed cigarettes smoke like tobacco, taste like nothing, smell like incense. Cost: roughly that of other filter cigarettes...