Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing on the runway on insectlike legs, the plane had a hunched, tense look. Its nose was a sharp metal spike, and the leading edges of its delta wing curled downward a little, suggesting a cobra's hood. But even when it was standing still, it seemed to be moving, and when its engines opened wide, it snapped forward like a toy on a rubber cord and leaped into the air at a sharp angle. The plane was the new B58 Hustler, a bomber made by Convair...
...speedometer, 8) no hood, 9) no fenders, 10) no registration...
...Hood in a Hood. The tales were the kind that no small boy was likely to forget. For two glorious years in the 1870s young Ned Kelly, with a ?2,000 price on his head, led a hard-riding gang, "bailed up" banks, "duffed" horses, stood off whole companies of police troopers. The gang, which included Ned's brother Dan, bulletproofed themselves in massive vests beaten out of plowshares and canlike helmets. Staging holdups on a grand scale, the gang was generous with its loot, reserved its gunfire primarily for the police, and acquired the aura of latter...
...cost-of-living index, which meant an automatic wage boost for steelworkers, statisticians swiftly added the change to a mosaic of other figures on increased costs, including the industry-wide wage hike called for in the contract signed last year. Soon after, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood announced a steel price boost averaging $6 a ton. Before the week was out, the nation's other steel companies moved to make Big Steel's increase industrywide, thus adding half a billion dollars to the annual cost of the U.S. economy's basic commodity...
...Steel President Hood, blaming the boost on rising labor costs, said that this week's wage increase will amount to 21? an hour, boost the corporation's annual labor costs by $87 million to $1,543,000,-ooo, which is a record high. But labor refused to have the price hike laid at its door. Said United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald: "Even without raising prices and without obtaining greatest output per man-hour, the corporation is in a position to increase its net profit from $348.1 million in 1956 to $437 million in 1957." The steel...