Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's scheduling occurred at 11 o'clock one morning. Housewives tuning in on Wednesday's Home program were handed a full-fledged battle instead of Arlene Francis and her pots and pans. Called "Operation Threshold," the program was telecast from Maryland's Fort Meade, and was aimed at showing how headquarters could watch its units on TV as they charged up an enemy-held hill. If perfected, combat TV could conceivably eliminate noncoms and junior officers, and foot soldiers would get their orders-and criticisms-direct from the commanding general seated before...
...Sawyer hurried home to Fort Smith, Ark. (pop. 47,942) and went to work, getting bills drawn up to outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek...
...been warming up, making agriculture possible where it has not been practiced in modern times. Southern Greenlanders are raising cattle and sheep as the Viking colonists did a thousand years ago-before their colony was destroyed, probably by increasing cold. Oats can be grown in Iceland and cabbages near Fort George on James Bay. The timber line is steadily creeping northward across the Canadian tundra...
...Corps liked the Fortress well enough to order 13 for "service tests." While the plane was proving itself, Boeing's engineers went to work to' build a better Flying Fortress. Beall and Wells put in bigger, goo-h.p. engines with turbo-superchargers, so that the Fort could operate at 38,000 ft. When World War II came along, Boeing was ready. Phil Johnson came back from his Canadian exile in 1939 to run the show. Bill Allen worked out production contracts. Wellwood Beall started the production lines humming. A year later, Boeing was in mass production. Orders...
Fair Wear & Tear. In Pampa, Texas, L. P. Fort, running for county judge, listed under "Miscellaneous" in his campaign expense account: "New soles and heels for shoes...