Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Construction on a $75,000 overhead bridge connecting several Physics laboratories (below) will be complete shortly, after more than three months of work, Irving B. Parkehurst, Director of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
Last week a Neapolitan street railway official phoned the police to report the distressing theft of a half-ton of trolley tracks and overhead trolley wire from an abandoned line in a Naples suburb. Naples' police rounded up the thieves (they had worked for three weeks in the bright Neapolitan sunshine ripping up the rails, even recruiting hired laborers to help), and wearily set to work on a new chore-patrolling the miles of trolley track still unstolen...
...again straining the no speech on Sunday theme, spoke briefly about the need for more local responsibility by the state and cited the new mental institution there, the cause of the visit, as an example of this. Throughout the talk, an airplane trailing a "Vote for Stevenson" sign circled overhead, and Stevenson noted that he had nothing to do "with that irritating airplane" which, he feared, was giving the dedication a political hint. Governor Dever merely smiled...
...destination of the guarded man was a bleak chain of coral reefs and windblown wastes inhabited by lizards and black rats-the Monte Bello Islands, off the northwest coast of Australia. There, while planes crisscrossed overhead and a flotilla of eleven Australian warships plied the nearby sea to keep the curious away, Britain last week made its great gamble...
With a high overhead (40 employees), Charlie Hunter figures he will be doing well to break even. To help, the store has reconstructed an old barn into a gun shop, stocked it with guns ranging from $75 to more than $2,000. Other items: shooting gloves, alpaca-lined pants and red underwear. Next year, with an eye on the 650,000 hunting and fishing licenses issued in & around the Chicago area, Hunter hopes to add a pond to the farm, sell fishing practice and equipment as well...