Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plans for an emergency Summer School Red Cross drive took rapid shape yesterday afternoon in response to growing estimates received by the Cambridge ARC Chapter earlier in the day of desperate need in the midwestern flood areas...
...cash ($10 bills arranged in 25 stacks, each stack worth $40,000). But it soon began to specialize in the dark, secret longings of its audience. Some longings that were too dark and secret to grant: several requests to see a man electrocuted; a re-enactment of Joan of Arc burning at the stake, requested by a Minneapolis classroom; a 60 m.p.h. head-on crash of two cars...
Next morning eight torpedo-bearing Skyraiders came in to the dam on a wide arc, flying low between the mountains, ready for a quick run and a sharp pullout. The first two planes dropped their torpedoes in close parallel, blowing out completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...
...cathedral. Architecturally, it is too much of a hodgepodge to rank with the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens or Reims. But Rouen's delicately detailed Butter Tower,* fine sculptures and stained glass are among the prides of France. The largest of its great bells was named for Joan of Arc, who was brought to Rouen for imprisonment and trial, was burned in 1431 near the cathedral in Rouen's market place...
...Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co. (arc welding) is building a new $8,500,000 plant with two miles of overhead "railroad," eliminating all manual handling of material. In mockup tests, President James F. Lincoln has found a saving of 10% in direct labor costs...