Word: combs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Railroad of violating price ceilings and sued for $384,245 triple damages. The charge: the Pennsy, without raising its hand and asking teacher for permission, had doubled the price of admission to most of its station toilets from 5? to 10? and increased the charges for towel, soap and comb from...
...Second Contact. Almost before he could give range and bearing, the Higbee was going into action. The officer of the deck rang for flank speed; the helmsman spun the wheel to comb the torpedo track. Alarm gonging, the Higbee heeled over, gathered speed. Captain Soballe tore on to the bridge; the crew clattered to battle stations...
...past months the Office of Price Stabilization has fearlessly taken controls off such items as sphygmo-oscillometers, Eskimo handicraft, canned rattlesnake meat, Easter-egg dye, truffles, cat beds, wigs, shoehorns, comb cleaners and incense burners. Last week it broadened the vistas of free enterprise. It removed price ceilings on "clay targets used in artificial shooting" and on "non-edible foods," e.g., wax apples and bananas...
...Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They are careful about security, quality of work, and costs to the Government...
...great question for the G.R.S. is when, if ever, it will be allowed to comb the sites of the late 1950 fighting between the present battlefront and the Yalu, where it believes hundreds of U.S. bodies lie. Up to this week the matter had not even been mentioned at Panmunjom...