Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This system, worked out theoretically, worked like a charm in actual fact, the Navy announced last week. It was tested last July over the coast of Georgia. The usual tactic was to attach a package of 1-2 Ibs. of carbon black to a static line and toss it out of an airplane flying through the top of a cloud. When the slack snapped out of the line, the package broke open, releasing the carbon black. Seven clouds out of seven tested dissipated entirely in 2½ to 20 minutes...
...financing brought another small drop in the Government bond market as older U.S. securities slid to bring their yields more in line with the new rates. Hopefully, the Treasury expects the market to stabilize before it is forced to raise more cash in two months. Secretary Anderson is under no illusions that his job of financing the debt will be easy. Last week, in a speech to the American Bankers Association, he pointed out a new problem he has to contend with...
General Motors' Oldsmobile, out this week, is also much cleaner than the chromy '58 that sold best of all middle-priced models. Pontiac expects a banner year because it cut prices by some $200. At the top of the line, G.M.'s Cadillac has less chrome and more of a sweeping rocket shape than the '58, is priced al most exactly the same-from $4,475 to $12,000 for the Eldorado Brougham...
...hugging sheath dresses she wore. Those doe eyes. That platinum blonde hair. And all that Hollywood mascara. "Tone down your appearance," warned Pan Am. So Joan toned down the mascara and eye shadow, sacked her sheaths in favor of a white blouse and black skirt. But she drew the line at a suggestion to switch her hair color to a more businesslike strawberry blonde...
Died. R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar, 78, canny, litigious shipping tycoon, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ontario-born Dollar went to work at 17 for his father, succeeded him in 1931 as head of the family shipping empire, but was forced out in 1938 when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line...