Word: necks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone these days is called 14 lbs. Using my roommate's weight of 155 lbs., his weight in stones is approximately 11.1 stones, and the drop necessary is 37 ft. In an unfortunate experiment to test the formula, the rope not only broke his neck, but pulled his head right...
When they vote disapproval, they risk nothing but the Premier's neck-and France's reputation...
Cheap & Easy. No one knows exactly how much sulphur lies under Mexico's narrow neck, but the deposits are estimated to be immense, second only to the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast deposits. So far, the three U.S. companies have spent $10 million on plants, roads, pipelines and port facilities to tap deposits on 30,000 acres, only a fraction of their leaseholds. Mexican Gulf Sulphur Co. has built a plant with a 200,000-ton annual capacity; Pan American Sulphur Co. has put up another worth $5,000,000 with a 500,000-ton capacity; Gulf Sulphur Corp...
...passengers for the last two years, but most of its bulge came in 1953, when plane-short Northwest had to shift its Boeing Stratocruisers from the Pacific to domestic and Orient runs and fly DC-4s to Hawaii. In 1954 Northwest made up most of the loss, ran almost neck and neck with Pan Am. Over the entire six-year test period, Northwest was the real leader, having flown 31,038 passengers to Pan Am's 30,700. As for subsidies, Northwest had previously said that it would fly the route without Government subsidy, expected to be self-supporting...
Other officers elected include Carlton D. Burit '56, of Eliot House and Grand Rapids, Mich., Vice-President: Stanley Levy '56, of Lowell Houses and Greet Neck, N.Y., Secretary; and Donald S. Crossett '56, of Winthrop House and Rochester, N.Y., Treasurer...