Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overhead, under a leaden sky, three flights of F9F Panther jets wheeled around the Princeton in perfect formation. Over bull horns on the flight deck came the air officer's command: "White flag, land planes." The landing signal officer, from his screened perch astern on the flight deck, guided the first plane in with two orange paddles. It sailed in, tailhook down, picked up an arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue...
Buildings shuddered and windows rattled in & around Richmond, Ind. (pop. 40,000) one afternoon last week as 70 silvery F-84 Thunderjets of the Strategic Air Command streaked overhead. The planes had just taken off from Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, about 45 miles away, were climbing on the second leg of a 1,220-mile training flight to Michigan. People on the ground saw several of the planes enter a thunderhead, flash out into the clear again. Suddenly, a series of explosions seemed to rip through the formations. Within seconds, eight planes had crashed to earth...
...CryBaby Division." Somehow, the 43rd pushed its draftees through eleven weeks of basic training. To save time, three weeks of training (overhead artillery firing, combat in cities, infiltration courses) were lopped off the schedules. Then the Army raided the division, levied 3,400 recruits for combat in Korea. The 43rd frantically rushed them through final training, and in return got another batch of men fresh from induction centers as replacements. The 43rd began to wonder if it hadn't been quietly shunted into a training role. Officers & men wrote letters to the Pentagon, their Congressmen and New England papers...
...year-old fishing shack in Rockport, Mass, known to artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint 'em." Charm or no charm, he intended to go right on running...
Customarily the H.A.A. estimates it earns 75 percent of its annual overhead (about $1,100,000) through football but in the past several years such hopes have been proven over-optimistic...