Word: maces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week the House Armed Services Committee revealed that a lot of the high brass have been relaxing on the Cotton Bay Club's palm-fringed golf course as freeloading guests of Baltimore's Martin Co.. manufacturers of military aircraft and missiles (Vanguard, Titan, Mace). In the past three years no fewer than 25 top-ranking Navy and Air Force officers vacationed on Eleuthera at Martin's expense...
...future in planemaking. He shifted into missiles and electronics, busily worked to get dozens of Government contracts that looked none too inviting to other companies, because the profit was less than on commercial business. Now Martin has contracts for six different missiles (including the surface-to-surface Mace and the Titan ICBM). more than any other company, making up a plump missile-and-electronics backlog of $600 million. Earnings, on the rise, are expected to hit $4.50 a share this year. Says Bunker: "We were either lucky or smart, and we don't care which. We got in first...
...towns of East Africa take more after Bombay than after any city in Europe. In Kenya a member of the Legislative Council may rise to speak, dressed in a skirt shaped after his Luo tribal costume of skins, but a flunky in knee britches and silver buckles carries a mace, as in the Mother of Parliaments...
Twelve silver trumpets sounded, and the procession entered the vast church. Behind representatives of the ancient orders-Franciscans, Dominicans, Benedictines, Cistercians-walked dignitaries of Rome's churches, breastplated Swiss guardsmen, velvet-clad chamberlains of honor, honorary privy chaplains, patriarchs, mace-bearers and scarlet-mantled cardinals, fan bearers and Noble Guards. In the chapel of St. Gregory, the cardinals made obeisance to the Pope, kissing his right hand. Then John XXIII was vested to celebrate his solemn papal Mass...
...Myles Mace carries out a threat he made recently, a how-to-succeed-in-business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...