Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
...Dime in Hand. The prosecution's white witnesses all sounded as if they were testifying for the defense. Leon Crocker, a domino-playing friend of Coleman's, testified that he was sitting on a bench in front of the store. He said that he heard Coleman tell Daniels that the store was closed, but that Daniels opened the door anyway-and "I heard a shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while...
...shot was fired. When Daniels was shot, I turned to leave. I did not want to play hero. Another shot was fired, and I was struck . . . in my spine." The priest said that neither he nor Daniels was armed-"The only thing I had in my hand was a dime," for a soft drink...
...result, the Government, which sells coins to banks at their face value, will soon be minting unheard-of profits. With the new copper-nickel alloy coins authorized by the bill, the cost of turning out a dime will drop from 9.5? to .6? quarters, from 23.6? to 1.5? and half dollars, from 47.3? to 26.5?. Revenues from coin manufacture will leap from some $100 million in 1965 to $1 billion...
Back in the U.S. in 1920, Sobel took a brief fling at the pro tournament circuit ("I couldn't make a dime"), settled into a succession of club jobs-at Long Island's Valley Stream Country Club, at the Westchester Embassy Club, at Grossinger's in the Catskill Mountains. His students included Steelman Charles M. Schwab ("The lousiest golf swing I ever saw"), and his reputation grew quickly. In 1953, as head pro at Miami's West View Country Club, Ross taught Cleveland Indians Third Baseman Al Rosen the fundamentals of golf. That summer Rosen clouted...