Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glass Cab. Momyer's operations are housed in three closely guarded, windowless buildings on the Tan Son Nhut airbase. He arrives at 7 a.m. every day to read the reports on the previous night's raids, then assembles his staff in his war conference room to plot the day's operations, using weather and intelligence reports and checking reconnaissance slides projected on an 8-ft.-by-10-ft. screen. He has authority on his own to strike at some 200 existing targets in North Viet Nam. When his intelligence turns up new ones he would like...
Broadening the Benefits. Refined and streamlined, Heyns's decompression unit now consists of a tent or bag of plastic supported by a barrel-shaped glass-fiber frame. The zippered bag encases the woman from the armpits down. As the pregnant mother relaxes in a chair, a hose attached to the frame draws air out of the enclosure, reducing air pressure on the abdomen by as much as 3 Ibs. per square inch. Normal pressure within the abdomen remains constant, pushing out the abdominal muscle as decompression outside increases...
...compile a list of fields that merit deferments "in the national interest." The Committee's completed recommendations, which have slowly leaked out to the public, are presently known to include "the earth, biological, natural, and physical sciences"; teaching the new, and presently unknown, list of critical occupations (such as glass-blowing); also engineering, health, linguistics, mathematics, pharmacology, and psychology...
...Before 1960, the serving ladies poured every glass of milk and then left them stacked on trays. Hurlburt put in automatic milk machines, which saved time and kept the milk cold...
Pilkington's original float process-developed by Chief Researcher Alastair Pilkington, Sir Harry's cousin-was so successful that glass companies in eleven nations rushed to obtain licenses for it, including the Soviet Union and such U.S. glassmakers as Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and the Ford Motor Co. Eventually, Pilkington expects to earn about $240 million annually from the float process in license fees, royalties and exports: the new tint process will add another $24 million a year to that. Meanwhile controlling 85% of British glassmaking and exporting its own products to 100 nations around...