Fixing the Ball Clock color-brown "This urban renewal effort

"This urban renewal effort

Despite acquittals in a public trial

according to George Bernard Shaw

" threw firecrackers at police horses hooves

" read one headline

Fixing the Ball Clock color-brown "This urban renewal effort"Time Out for Clock" read the headline of a New York Times article in January 1954 about the slowing of the hands on the four faced "Golden Clock" in Grand Central Terminal. The clock, above the information booth in the middle of Grand Central's main concourse, was losing a minute or two per day and had to be corrected hourly. Its removal for repairs marked "the first interruption to the bronze clock's ticking in the 21,500,000 minutes, more or less,