Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Numbers Mobile to teach the child both arithmetic and art appreciation. To make the mobile balance, the child must hang a number of small Masonite disks on one side to match corresponding numerical figures on the other. The big numbers are larger and heavier than the small ones, thus require more disks to balance the mobile...
Grounds. In Milwaukee, John Hoffman, 72, filing for divorce, charged that his wife Theresa 1) told him not to "hang around" the house, 2) remarked that she "could" poison him, 3) cut his weekly allowance from...
...into his trees?he simply flies a helicopter over the grove when the nuts get ripe, and the rotor blows the crop to the ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry to the rescue through the steepest canyons. Four Bell helicopters, two dressed like boys and the others like girls, do square dances above the crowds at aviation shows...
...Brinton's high birth rate statistics, calorie tallies, and record manufacturing figures (probably weighted down with expensive guns) are unmistakable signs of life. Plump children and comparatively merry faces on bus-riders are Brinton's evidence that the people are content. Eccentric, but by no means morbid, paintings still hang in the familiar Parisian galleries and studios, and though many landmarks are gone, Brinton concludes that Europe has changed less in twenty years than America...
When Air Force Staff Sergeant Robert Wilkins was taken prisoner in Korea in 1951, he did not let time hang idle on his hands. In the prison camps, he soon discovered that most of his fellow prisoners had two major topics of conversation: women and autos. Wilkins, who had been a salesman for Detroit's Hanson Chevrolet Co., felt right at home. Every time he met a new prisoner, Wilkins would ask if the prisoner didn't think he might be in the market for a new car after he was freed. Then he would take his name...