Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others analyzed the waves coming ashore at La Jolla and at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., were able to predict surf conditions for the landings on Sicily and Normandy. By studying the biology of barnacles, they produced a new, plastic antifouling paint that cut the Navy's fuel bill...
...everybody talks about the weather, and everybody tries to do something different about it. Television weather shows range from Milwaukee's Bill Carlsen squirting up a shaving-cream snowstorm to Manhattan's arch, smock-coated Tex Antoine drooping a cartoon mustache to pass the same word about rain. There have been politicians (Maryland's Senator John Marshall Butler once sponsored a nightly weather roundup as a campaign gimmick), puppets, and above all, dolls. As one of the largest sponsors of TV weather programs (36 on local stations in the East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried...
...Foreign runners are traditionally superior in distance races, but victories by 19-year-old University of Oregon Freshman Dyrol Burleson at 1,500 meters (3:47.5),Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger at 5,000 meters (14:47.6), and little (5ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.) Max Truex at 10,000 meters (31:22.4) gave the U.S. high hopes for next year...
Douglas' blast was the latest in a series of angry rumblings in Congress over the role of retired and resigned military men in business. Three weeks ago New York's Representative Alfred Santangelo offered a harsh amendment to the Administration's $39 billion military appropriations bill for fiscal 1960: no funds could be used for contracts with any company that had hired general officers who had been on active duty within the last five years. The amendment was defeated by only a narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation...
...Fight. For old Bill Keck, it was the end of a long fight to stay independent in an age of integration and merger. A California wildcatter who first struck it rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who did. But now, at 79, he is growing weary of the fight and realizes that a producer must have markets to remain strong. Says a Keck aide: "It has simply become too difficult to do business. Without refinery facilities, we have no import quotas of our own and are entirely at the mercy...