Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high telemetry antenna whose dish spreads 60 ft. wide. At the Cape fire station, the crew gets a lecture in handling fires that might break out in the unearthly, exotic fuels. In a grey and silver building, one man takes charge of 53 spools of colored wire used to maintain the big IBM 704 impact predictor computer. On the launching pads, workers clamber along the service-tower catwalks to tinker with the steel-fisted launcher that holds a missile down during thrust buildup...
Home builders and owners have long dreamed of a cheap and practical heat pump to maintain comfortable temperatures in homes both winter and summer. This week the dream was a big step closer to reality. General Electric Co. unveiled a new, three-ton model of its Weathertron heat pump specifically designed for the mass home-building market. The new G.E. pump will heat or cool a seven-room house in temperatures ranging from -20° to 120°. Cost: about $2,000, including installation...
Burke emphasized that the Grille would maintain its former service and prices. The only change, he said, would be in its hours. The Grille will be open Sunday through Thursday from 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. insted of from 5:30 p.m. to 12 p.m. as before...
...unbreakable dry-cargo rates to ensure an operating profit on each voyage. Failing in that, the Greeks may be forced to reduce their surplus tramp tonnage by laying up still another 20% of the fleet, assessing each owner with a vessel still in service a fixed fee to help maintain the idle ships...
...kept it so secret that it was only found out a few years ago. when a trove of his letters to her came to light. Both Voltaire and Emilie were getting temporarily bored with one another, but, as Voltaire explained, it was necessary for the sake of appearances to maintain one of France's most famous love affairs-otherwise, what would people say? And so the two philosophers remained close-until Emilie became pregnant, at the age of 42 (much too old, by the standards of her day), by the handsome Marquis de Saint-Lambert...