Word: giant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That deepening problem of modern times-giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic-sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation...
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 19--Dave Beck, millionaire ex-president of the giant Teamsters' Union, was found guilty by a federal court jury today of evading $240,000 in income taxes...
Stocky, dynamic Martin Gabel is every half-inch "the Little Giant." His voice is a minefield of riches-the silver of persuasion, the gold of assurance, the hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused...
Empty Bottles. In Havana, Castro's antivice campaign suspended the crooked government lottery (costing 4,000 ticket vendors their jobs). The government also closed a giant private numbers game, kept locks on the big gambling casinos, employing 10,000. Castro wiped out the Botellas,*the workless government jobs given minor flunkies by the Batista and previous regimes, whacking off 6,000 names at a saving of $15 million a year. The notoriously corrupt Havana newsmen, who for decades had been drawing up to $1,000,000 a month in government bribes, were rudely reduced to their salaries, some...
...Pipe. Another system is to mount the nozzle at the end of a large, flexible coupling so it can switch from side to side like the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket. This is extremely difficult because the flexible pipe must carry the giant flow of hot, high-speed, high-pressure gas without leaking or burning out. But Ritchey implied that it can be done in an efficient way that causes little drag loss...