Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This rueful, Oscar-winning tragedy about the friendship between an Aryan carpenter (Josef Króner) and an old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska) in Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia incisively depicts the ravages of war on one man's conscience...
...police are adding 500 men to bring the force up to 6,500, and the provincial police are being increased 15% to some 35,000 fully equipped men. A U.S. contractor is winding up construction of 140 miles of all-weather roads linking two critical border areas with the main national road system to give the police mobility. In the north, to the same end, the U.S. has built 44 short landing strips, serviced by Helio Courier and Porter STOL planes that can land on less than 200 ft. if need...
Crumpled Craft. "The main fear is losing your rotor blade," says Don White, a mechanical engineer at Douglas Aircraft. "I imagine nearly every guy has had at least one engine failure, and this is something you can cope with. The gyrocopter just settles down to earth. But if you lose your rotor blade, you're out of luck. It's like a wing on an airplane." Fortunately, the gyrocopter is what pilots call "a forgiving plane"; the construction tends to give on crashing, and there is little mass to crush or entangle the pilot. "If he lands...
...that their "status" was suffering when compared with that of other Irish white-collar workers. So they too went on strike, demanding a 7% pay raise over the present top level of $1,881.60 a year. The result was devastating: in all, ten commercial banking institutions run about 900 main banks and branches; all these were forced to shut down. That left fewer than 40 branches-including two run by New York's First National City Bank and by the Bank of Nova Scotia-still open in all the Irish Republic. Beyond that, while Ulstermen may not ordinarily feel...
University's inability to consolidate this area has been the main reason for the present delay in building...