Word: crestings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, many problems remain as a heritage from the past, but the big cities are riding the crest of a renaissance that has turned their eyes determinedly toward a better future. The most dramatic sign of the renaissance is the biggest building boom in metropolitan history. Building permits totaling nearly $10 billion were issued in 1961, with each permit a vote for the city's future...
...maker of steel pipe in Milan, bumped his head on a wooden scaffolding. This, in Da Vinci style, led him to develop the lightweight steel scaffolds now standard the world over. After the war, he bent his tubes into a motor scooter frame and, with his Lambretta, rode the crest of Italy's pent-up demand for cheap transportation. Next, spotting Italian industry's growing need for tools, he began producing heavy machinery and giant electric steelmaking furnaces. Recently, to keep up with the middle-class Italian's desire to graduate from two-wheeled transportation to four...
...bomb could be loaded on a submarine or barge and planted on the ocean bottom near the coast of a target country. Exploded under two miles of water (at the aggressor's will and from great distance), a 20,000-megaton bomb would stir up a wave whose crest would still be 100 feet high after it had traveled 200 miles. It would wash most coastlines bare and ride far inland...
...expert acting crew unties Knot's knots, with 83-year-old Ethel Grimes in gruff comic command as the family doctor, and James Donald convincingly torn between love, money, and the family crest. Murder will out, of course, and it does with an explosively surprising last-curtain bang-of laughter...
...Products & Chemicals Inc. of Trexlertown, Pa. is riding the crest of a liquid oxygen wave as the major supplier for missile engines, last year did 63% of its $49 million sales with the Government. The company became expert at handling the extremely cold LOX through its sales of small commercial on-site generators...