Word: ent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because he's got him a twenty-dollah pair a shoes...
Nerve center of the system is Ent Air Force Base (named for the late Major General Uzal G. Ent) in Colorado Springs, where some 700 Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corp officers and 1,500 enlisted men, along with about 40 Canadians, work in a precisely knit NORAD command under General Partridge and his Canadian deputy, Air Marshal C. (for Charles) Roy Slemon. In a two-story, windowless operations center at Ent, a ganglion of more than 600 miles of electronic communications wire feeds information to markers of huge Plexiglas plotting boards, which show the air situation over every...
...Reader Donovan brace himself; the letters are the initials of the cardinal numbers from one to ten. For the blank spaces, try ENT...
...will be computed by the same method used to arrive at Standard & Poor's pres ent daily and weekly indexes (the daily will be discontinued), e.g., the market value of a company's stock is multiplied by the number of shares outstanding, to get the issue's current value, then compared to a total market value in a base year...
...years it looked as though Chennault's CAT would never get off the ground. Caught in China's civil war, it was the world's most shot-at airline, struggled to stay aloft as a civilian support organization for the retreating Nationalists armies. Profits were nonexist ent, payrolls tough to meet. But between 1946 and 1948, CAT flew the Nationalists out of some 72 threatened bases, in one operation evacuated 30,000 wounded soldiers from Manchuria ahead of the advancing Reds...