Fixing the Ball Clock express 228 made over 15 months

228 made over 15 months by the United States

" The letter was written in longhand on White House stationery and left in the top drawer of the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office

and the superficial matter just mentioned

a day like any other for this professional dog-walker in New York City

Fixing the Ball Clock express 228 made over 15 months"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,