Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 10 in. above their heads. It took them two hours to progress 600 ft. The tunnel suddenly broadened into a fairly large chamber 1,000 ft. beneath the surface. Leading off from the chamber was a shaft measuring 2½ by 1½ ft. A young Oxford student, Neil Moss, 20, led the way but after a few moments' descent, his alarmed cry came back: "I'm stuck! I can't budge an inch...
...began to gasp for air, had to be pulled up fast. On being revived with oxygen, Peters said: "I'll have another go.'' This time he managed to tie a hemp rope around Moss's chest. Slowly but strongly the rope was pulled taut, and Neil Moss moved 18 in. upward, then got stuck fast again. His breathing stopped, and the rescuers had to slacken their chest hold until respiration started again. Another man, John Larson, spent 1½ hours unsuccessfully trying to budge Moss's right arm. "The carbon dioxide fumes make you lightheaded...
Question put by House Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack to Defense Secretary Neil McElroy before the House Space Committee last week: Is it still U.S. policy not to strike the first blow in war? Said McElroy: "Our policy is that we will not attack first." Democrat McCormack pressed harder: "Isn't this policy a rather untenable one in case of a great emergency?" McElroy acknowledged that to let U.S. enemies strike the first blow in the nuclear missile age would indeed help a potential attacker, then said of U.S. policy: "Whether that will always be true I think could...
Because of the progressive damping of price downswings, the Federal Government's attitude toward price upcreep is much more important than before. Argues Economics Professor Neil Jacoby of the University of California at Los Angeles...
Burke accepted the idea, got news of the fifth cable break, and checked out his plan with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, who notified the White House. Minutes later, the order went from Burke to Norfolk, headquarters of Admiral Jerauld Wright's Atlantic Fleet. Norfolk messaged the U.S. Naval Base at Argentia, Newfoundland, which in turn radioed Lieut. Commander Ernest Korte, skipper of a converted destroyer escort, the radar picket ship U.S.S. Roy 0. Hale, outward bound on a routine month-long sea patrol. Hale immediately turned and steamed to the point where a twin-engined Navy P2V Neptune...