Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pages with a proposal that the U.S. finance several new institutes to pursue basic scientific research. Most of all, the Vice President used the time to gather some much-needed new material for his speeches, as he had last July when he entered solitary confinement for one week to frame his successful Chicago acceptance speech...
...customers for low-priced but well-made Japanese blouses. Buck Mauney's move was bold. He made it in August last year after his U.S.-equipped yarn mill had burned down. Mauney had seen the Japanese spinning equipment at a textile show and tested a Japanese spinning frame for three months, then bought 9.000 spindles for $500,000. The best price for nearly comparable U.S. equipment was $540.-ooo. Furthermore, the Japanese equipment eliminates a full step in the spinning process and includes extra devices worth $250,000 more. By cutting out one step in the spinning process, Mauney...
...notion of a woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small girl, Maggie learned how to shave and cut the hair of the country bumpkins who filled the barbershop on Saturday afternoons...
...into an air-conditioned van to don his Buck Rogersish pressurized space suit, and to begin two hours of inhaling pure oxygen (to get his red blood cells loaded up with an extra supply). Shortly before zero hour, 5:30 a.m., he staggered from the van. his 165-lb. frame laden with 155 lbs. of clothing and equipment, including an experimental stabilizing parachute designed to prevent dangerous high-altitude spin - during which blood collects in the extremities - without slowing the rate of descent...
...employees had moved away), Galbreath moved in, bought the town of Climax for $1,500,000 and got ground near Leadville to set up a new community. He is selling the houses, moved from Climax, to former tenants for prices ranging from $3,700 for a three-room frame house to $10,000 for a five-room house with garage...