Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pennies-then I count the mills"). Last week, after a 90-minute flight in a Comet, Rickenbacker became the first to announce that he was ready to place an order. Eastern, said Rickenbacker, would put up $100 million for 35 of the most advanced Comet designs-the Comet III*-provided that De Havilland could promise delivery...
...Comet I is De Havilland's current model; the Comet II, due for delivery late in 1953, will have a range of 2,000 miles, (v. the present 1,750) and a speed of better than 500 m.p.h.; the Comet III's chief gain will be in capacity (60 to 75 passengers v. the present...
Facts of Life in Woodstock, III...
...with a genial mild-and-bitter (brewed from wheat and honey) almost 40 centuries earlier, circa 6,000 B.C. Genesis 9:21 notes that after the Flood Noah "drank of the wine, and was drunken." The ancient Egyptians, too, were prodigious tipplers: according to his temple inscriptions, Pharaoh Ramses III (c. 1198-1167 B.C.) personally stood the gods 466,303 jugs of beer...
...story town house on Beekman Place, with only one lousy elevator. The furniture was secondhand stuff-designed by Chippendale and other 18th century English carpenters. The old Crown Derby plates she ate off had occasional cracks, and the antique Paul Storr silver was once slobbered in by King George III. The pictures on the walls were horrors-the work of hacks like Rembrandt, Hals, Velasquez and Renoir...