Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure in the cabin was failing, and the pressure in the oxygen tanks had dropped from a normal...
...than three emergency telephones, two first aid caches containing blankets and chemical heat pads, and the Tuckerman Ravine ski Shelter which, although unoccupied at the present time, is available for climbers in distress. The final irony of fate is that he dies just a few yards beyond the Spur Cabin of the Harvard Mountaineering Club where people were staying at that time...
According to veteran climbers, Parysko died ironically. After miraculously escaping the avalanche which buried the students' igloo. Parysko, lightly-clad, bypassed numerous places where he could have been saved. He was found only 20 yards away from a cabin occupied by eight University students on a skiing trip...
...friendly, Missouri-born, white-thatched newsman, who, like Grant and the Journal's managing editor, started out as a railway worker. Like every other staffer, he always calls Grant "Mr. Grant." (Once he addressed him as "Boss," and Grant exploded: "That reminds me of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Simon Legree.") Editor Ferguson leaves the day-to-day operations to Managing Editor Wallace ("Chink") Lomoe, 56, a capable, hard-driving ex-state editor who came to the Journal as a reporter 25 years ago, is president of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Association. Chief Editorial Writer Lindsay...
...Helicopter. The Army's first operational ramjet helicopters were delivered by Hiller Helicopters. Called the H-32, the craft is powered by small (12-lb.) ramjet engines mounted at the rotor blade tips. Mostly cabin, the new 'copter seats two to three persons, can carry more than 100% of its empty weight (500 lbs.), uses a pair of ski-shaped pipes for landing gear...