Word: eights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regulations currently enforced on the nation's railways smack of the days when passenger trains averaged 20 miles per hour and rail was the only convenient mode of transportation. Train crews now need travel only 100 miles to earn a full day's pay; an engineer making an eight-hour round trip between New York and Washington would earn 4 1/2 days' pay, while the 16 engineers and firemen who handle the Twentieth Century Limited earn 19.2 days' wages in a single night. The Interstate Commerce Commission has calculated railway employees work only 57 per cent of the time...
...NDEA program, the University must receive the objectionable affidavits, as well as matching each nine dollars of Federal funds with one of its own. Other Federal programs--including NSF which Harvard has administered for eight years--require only distributing application forms and sending them back to Washington. But an affidavit in one program is as odious, and as unnecessary, as in another...
...cantilevered truss made up of tetrahedrons (four-sided pyramids) and octahedrons (eight-sided figures), which looks like something made by a giant playing with an Erector set. Made of lightweight aluminum tubes, the "octet" truss cantilevers outward 60 ft. from a single support, weighs only 3 lbs. per sq. ft. v. some 100 lbs. for a comparable structure in conventional steel beams...
...most outstanding pilot enterprise is Flight Safety, Inc., owned (89% of the stock) and operated by Albert L. Ueltschi, 41, Pan Am captain, and, since 1944, pilot of the company's executive plane. In eight years Ueltschi has parlayed the money he raised by mortgaging his house into a million-dollar-a-year business employing 46 fulltime employees in New York, Chicago and Houston. Flight Safety provides instruction on new procedures and new aircraft to more than 800 professional pilots who fly the executive airplanes for some 200 major corporations, including Gulf Oil Corp., United States Steel Corp., American...
...manner of his death was typical of his gentle nature. After he was shot by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., his first thought was of his wife: "Be careful how you tell her." He died eight days later, whispering to his wife: "Nearer, my God, to thee." It was Sept. 14, 1901; McKinley was leaving a violent century that he could not have understood, and that could not be very kind to him in retrospect. At the time, his mourners did not recall his failures but remembered his "firm, unquestioning faith...