Word: onto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities for the thousands who live in wilderness villages. Airlines touch Point Barrow in the far north on the Arctic Ocean, Kotzebue on Kotzebue Sound, Attu in the Aleutians. Bush Pilot Don Sheldon, 36, hauls Indians and Eskimos, dog teams, pregnant women, dynamite and lumber, drops his handy craft onto a slippery strip in Umiat or on crags high in the mountain ranges. He brings groceries to Schoolteacher Charlie Richmond (home town: Tuxedo Park, N.Y.), who lives in Sleetmute (pop. 120) on the Kuskokwim River, where English-speaking Eskimos still attend Sleetmute's Russian Orthodox Church. Pilots transport Fairbanks...
Before it could be withdrawn, the U.S. last week latched onto the U.S.S.R.'s tentative acceptance of President Eisenhower's offer of joint technical studies on the feasibility of stopping nuclear tests. President Eisenhower sped off a "Dear Mr. Chairman" letter to the Kremlin's Khrushchev, proposed that delegations of Western and Communist scientists meet in Geneva next month to discuss ways and means of detecting nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep...
...down payment on 30 DC-8s; Lockheed is dickering in the same way to sell its turboprop Electras. All told, U.S. airlines have ordered 257 jets and 172 turboprops. When these come into service, their extra speed and capacity will send about 700 piston aircraft onto the used-plane market...
...little real control over the operational deployment of Air Force interceptors and Army missile batteries. He has difficulty getting quick interservice decisions out of the Pentagon. Beyond that, he is well aware NORAD is as much a diplomatic alliance as a military command, that some Canadian politicians have latched onto Canada's contribution to NORAD as an issue-"They've got command of our air force...
General Development has lined up several hedges against a slump in Florida land sales: a new chemical process to plate chrome directly onto aluminum, and a private utility system that sells water to its housing developments. But the Mackles do not worry about a slowdown in housing. Says Frank Mackle: "Anyone can sell when the housing market is good. But when the market gets tough and choosy, we can really go to town because we can undersell the competition...