Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.L.P.A. system eliminates the twin rows of lights, now in use, which sometimes lead pilots to mistake one side of the approach lane for the other. It substitutes a single row of horizontal light bars leading to the runway centerline. Each light bar is long enough to serve as an artificial horizon, telling the pilot if his plane is on even keel. At a distance of 1,000 feet from the runway, five bars abreast make an extra-wide horizon...
Another refinement of the A.L.P.A. system is a string of condenser-discharge lights* down the center of the approach lane. They flash with 600-million candlepower, a brilliance that makes the bright white bars seem orange by contrast. The flashes are arranged in sequence, flicking in toward the runway and marking the landing direction like a stream of tracer bullets. And the pilot can easily locate the runway threshold, which is outlined with high-intensity green lights and a check point of five red bars...
...average golfer is to be found at the Leo Jerome Martin Memorial Golf Course. The first nine is a generally easy par 35 layout, but the last nine will provide trouble for even the expert. Most of the back nine fairways are no wider than a four-lane highway. To either side lie woods, rough and water. Several of the holes are dog-legs to the left, but none are very long. Scores on the front nine are low, but the back nine makes up for this...
...high-ceilinged amphitheater on London's Mincing Lane last week, veteran Auctioneer A. B. Yuille stepped up to the rostrum and pounded his gavel. He was offering for sale 18 chests of tea from Ceylon. From among the 400 brokers came cries of "Far! Far! Far!" as the bids rose a farthing at a time. Finally, at five shillings one farthing a Ib. (about 70?), the first lot went to George White & Co. In 3½ hours Auctioneer Yuille sold 11,524 chests containing 1,250,000 Ibs. of tea. For the first time since 1939, London...
...whose quality and quantity have also dropped because of the purchasing system? Certainly not, said the Ministry. Nor will the tea change necessarily give Britons a better brew. One reason: other markets have forged ahead of London, and now get first pick of the best teas. Nevertheless, as Mincing Lane's brokers began to blend and taste their first purchases, they smacked their lips with satisfaction. Said one: "This tastes better already! What a change from Socialist...