Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corbett Space Cadet television program. One of the dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed by Oscar Schlemmer for a Bauhaus ballet, are only a little less spectacular...
...present expansion program, it will be bigger than U.S. Steel Corp. and General Motors combined. AEC will soon ask for (and probably get) another $6 billion. When this chunk of money is spent on new, strange, secret and dangerous equipment, the AEC will be bigger than the Bell Telephone System, now the largest business organization...
...record for peregrination probably goes to Jim Bell, who stepped out of the Korean fire to cover the Middle East's sizzling frying pan. He cabled: "I've added 42 pages to my passport's normal 48 pages. Security functionaries in this part of the world love my passport. They play it like an accordion. I've made eight trips to Iran, seven to Egypt, six to Syria, three each to Turkey and Iraq, two each to Greece and Bahrein, one each to Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar ... My wife wistfully wishes...
Specialists. In Swanwick, England, nine bell ringers of St. Andrew's Church went on strike when the Rev. L. H. Roper told them they would have to attend services...
...Aircraft's Enginemaker Fred Rentschler was building $40 million in new plants to speed the production of jet engines. Along Cleveland's eastern lakeshore a whole new chemical empire had sprung up. In Chicago, new industries sprawled all over the suburbs,"Men Wanted" signs hung everywhere, and Bell & Howell kept its employment offices open nights, Saturdays & Sundays "to make it convenient for people to come...