Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American...
...Force also plans to have the Harvey Machine Co. (TIME, Dec. 24) operate two more in California, from United and Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton. Dow Chemical Co. may also get one for magnesium forgings. The big presses have already proved their worth, even though the present bottleneck in plane production is engines and not air frames. The Wyman-Gordon press has been operating 16 hours a day, and the two German presses are now both...
Collateral. In Lima, Peru, Manuel Meneses admitted that he had his four-year-old son christened 26 times in three years because "each new godfather was good for at least one loan...
...operators is handsome Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 34. Against the granite-faced opposition of his uncle, Count Matarazzo, Baby took over his family's metals plant a few years ago and made it into the largest nonferrous rolling mill in South America. For his redheaded fiancee, Nelita Alves de Lima, Baby is building a million-dollar house in suburban Santo Amaro with two Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high...
...Lima, Ohio (pop. 49,880) was all set this week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were...