Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tornado.' and there it was, right on top of us. It was dark, but this thing was much darker than the night. We ran into the house and got down on the floor and prayed." At the big $500,000 Hazel-Atlas Glass plant a night-shift worker heard "that awful roaring noise, and the building just kind of shuddered and went down...
...despite the camera tricks, engulfing shadows, dizzying vistas of colonnades and architectural arabesques, the film moves forward with a pulse-quickening stir and bustle. As the jealous Moor, Welles captures the falcon-look of a Kabyle from the Atlas Mountains; Michael McLiammoir plays a foul-fiend of an lago with reptilian intensity; and Suzanne Clothier as Desdemona, though not quite entrancing enough to "sing the savageness out of a bear," wins compassion as she is bewilderingly overwhelmed by her mate and fate...
...astonishing rise in General Dynamics stock is due to many factors, including the romance of atomic energy (the world's second atomic submarine, General Dynamics' Sea Wolf, is under construction by the company), the prospect of big, new orders for Convair's intercontinental ballistic missile, Atlas, and rumors of new mergers in the works. The most recent rumor, that General Dynamics would merge with destroyer-building Bath Iron Works, was denied by both companies. But Wall Streeters are sure that more, and bigger, mergers are on the way, since Hopkins is always looking for likely prospects...
...time of the Civil War, however, the overseers discovered on a tour of the library that "of the Statutes of the United States there is no copy in the library, nor a tolerably good atlas, nor the works of Wordsworth, nor the lives of Judge Story or of Doctor Channing or of the Chancellors of England." Immediately they raised money to buy more books for the library. This was the beginning of the end for Gore Hall...
...Three strategic intercontinental missiles, for long-range striking power, are under accelerated development. "These are the Navaho, the Snark and the Atlas, . . . Such missiles [as the Atlas] approaching a target present the enemy with an incredibly-and almost hopelessly-difficult defensive...