Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mink coat is the quality of the fur itself and the long hours of skilled workmanship required to make a coat. With the new Jasmine mutation, for example, Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman might pay $4,950 for the skins, $1,800 for the labor.* Rent and other overhead expenses would bring the cost of the coat to $7,300, and Bergdorf's would sell it for $12,000 plus...
Like many another airframe maker, Grumman diversified into such strange lines as aluminum canoes and dinghies. To help pay the overhead, "Jake" Swirbul snared contracts to overhaul Navy planes and to service foreign airlines planes. For the civilian airplane market, Grumman's Widgeon amphibians were refitted for executive use, and Grumman began making its fast, versatile Mallards and the Albatross, an air-sea rescue plane. Swirbul's tactics succeeded in keeping the company narrowly in the black. By 1948 Chairman...
...group can deliver about 15 times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period of time as can a carrier task group. ¶Carrier warfare is inefficient: a carrier task group can mount 450 fighting planes, but half of these must be kept overhead or on the decks, ready to defend the ships themselves. Available for on-target attack: 225 planes out of a $2.5 billion investment. Navy answer: a task group can move 300 miles overnight and fight some place else; a captured air base is no good...
...Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs dropped. The rest dispersed to carry on the fight from rooftops and doorways. French observation planes circled overhead to keep track of other mobs snaking angrily through the city...
Outlook: A strong believer in the proposition that ecumenical cooperation, now functioning well at the top level, should be extended to the grass roots. He told the assembly: "We've been concerned here with the overhead of cooperation. We've been on dress parade . . . I am concerned in bringing the services of the council into closer relationship with the local community . . . This overhead fellowship is delightful and enriching, but there should be elimination of the sense of futility that grows out of the overlapping and duplication of denominational programs on the local parish level...