Word: omaha
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will work and live. The green-walled, fluorescent-lighted upper floor is crammed with consoles, television monitors and countdown timers. For each Titan there is a switch marked with multiple target designations. If the occasion ever comes, the crew will receive a coded target message from SAC headquarters at Omaha, flip switches accordingly. The missile will be fueled automatically, the surface doors opened, the Titan raised a foot a second to ground level and fired within minutes...
Nebraskans were quick to retort. "Nebraska has some of the finest schools in the nation," said State Education Commissioner Freeman Decker. Sorensen's speech was "the most disparaging, untrue statement that I've ever heard," said Mrs. Fred Walker, chairman of the education committee of the Omaha chapter of the American Association of University Women. "It's extremely bad for a Nebraskan to come into his own state, without figures and statistics, to make such a statement...
Died. Henry Doorly, 81, dour, conservative, longtime boss of the Omaha World-Herald, which was the city's third-ranking paper when he was hired as a reporter in 1903, became its only daily and the most powerful paper in Nebraska during his tenure as publisher from 1934 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Omaha...
...there are now so many Witnesses (916,332) that not even New York could hold another International Assembly, and last week's gathering was one of 13 district assemblies that will meet during the next two months in Houston, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Turin, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Milwaukee and San Francisco...
Between pressure from Congressmen and admonitions from the Small Business Administration not to forget the little fellow, contracts have been given to firms that were either incompetent or underfinanced. At the Offutt Air Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...