Word: hull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lines began a furious race to get the Excalibur ready for sea again. In 39 days of continuous work, the line spent $1,000,000 on salvage operations, shipyard repairs', hotel bills for displaced passengers. Last week, the last two plates were welded on the Excalibur's hull; next week she sails for the Mediterranean...
...Jones had it all worked out. On the straightaways, Slo-Mo-Shun skimmed along with its 1,500-h.p. Allison engine wide open, leaving a spectacular rooster-tail wake that shot 30 ft. into the air. On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist...
...Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions stage a fantastic rescue that dramatizes the strange laws of spatial physics. Later, the explorers bound in seven-league strides along the cracked, cratered moonscape where...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). On Borrowed Time, with Henry Hull...
...magazine was read with considerable respect at that time in some quarters in the State Department. One of his articles, suggesting that the U.S. encourage a Communist movement in enemy Japan and that the U.S. give military aid to Chinese Reds, had been sent to Chungking over the signature "Hull," presumably through the maneuverings of State Department men who were giving aid & comfort to China's Communists. A copy of this message was part of the FBI haul. It was among the five documents of which Republicans had caught a scent last week...