Word: filles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oldsmobile has set its sights on 400,000 cars, 80,500 more than last year. Cadillac has a 93,000-car backlog to fill, is aiming at 117,000 cars and 50% of the luxury-car market...
Between drinks he was drilled in secret codes, in how to make explosives out of homemade materials, how to make a time bomb out of a wristwatch, how to blow up ships (drill a hole in a chunk of coal, fill with explosive, drop coal in bunker. When fed to boilers, the explosion bursts the boilers). When Eddie was judged ready, the Germans strapped ?2,000 on his back, fitted him out with an English-made suit, shoes, detonators, wireless set, and an identity card salvaged from the dead of Dieppe. His mission: to blow up the De Havilland factory...
...miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch any runaways to an upgrade. Once off the hill and on a tamer grade, the 91-mile railroad winds through a palm-tufted savannah, a rocky badlands where flash floods can fill dusty ravines with ten feet of water in a few minutes, and finally a sandy semidesert to the Caroni river...
...build a 25 bev machine on this same pattern would have required a fantastic amount of steel. Chief difficulty: the particles cannot be kept on accurate orbits, and so they must be provided with a wide (32 in. cross section) vacuum chamber. It takes massive steel magnets to fill this space with the necessary magnetic field...
Hidden Bodies. By week's end the dust was settling a little. General Motors eagerly jumped in to fill the sponsor's gap on the Godfrey & His Friends show and other advertisers were lining up to replace Chesterfield in the open radio &. TV "segments. CBS President Frank Stanton saw the rupture merely as a matter of personalities: "There are no hidden bodies. It was just a lot of little things. For over two years we couldn't get together on renewing a contract. It's a little like a divorce is sometimes...