Word: arrowhead
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...questioning, as he admitted that he regularly escorted the night's cash from the downtown bank to two gambling clubs. He got $10 a day for this service, he said, from the Piping Rock Club (where Costello used to own a piece) and $50 a week from the Arrowhead Inn, where Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis and Detroit's Lefty Clark run the tables...
...Arrowhead Springs, Calif., Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren, 17, youngest daughter of California's Governor Earl Warren, showed photographers how much she had progressed since her polio attack last year. After painful practice, she was able to take a few steps. The governor himself decided that some baths in the springs' mineral-rich mud were just the thing for the neuritis in his right...
...Flying Arrowhead. The Navy allowed Douglas Aircraft Co. to release a picture of its XF4D, an experimental jet interceptor of daring, tailless design. Intended for launching by catapult from a carrier deck, it has been test-flown successfully, but nothing has been made public about its performance...
...camp site of one of the early tribes has now come to light in Wyoming. In 1939 Jimmy Allen, sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads...
...Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) proved years ago by wind-tunnel tests that the long, graceful wings of bombers are much less efficient above Mach 1 than clumsy-looking "stub" wings. As planes get faster, their wings will probably grow stubbier still until they diminish into something looking like an arrowhead...