Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Belgian and Canadian flags fluttered overhead, Lieut. General Maurice Pope, the Canadian ambassador, turned over the gift as a "reinforcement of the defense of liberty in Western Europe." Then a crane swung a 40-mm. self-propelled gun through the air. Colonel Eugene de Greef, Belgian defence minister, turned to Pope and said: "[A strong army] would be above our powers if we were not effectively helped by American nations and notably by your country...
...Dunster and Leverett petitions offer a bright but illegal solution in their overhead traffic light suggestion. Actually, a standard post light would have legal blessing and also be easier to see. For clear warning, it should blink red down DeWolfe Street and yellow in both directions on Memorial Drive. It is hard to set a monetary value on a human life, but a five hundred dollar traffic light seems cheap enough insurance...
Albion T. Sawyer, Jr. '53, who is handling the Dunster appeal, indicated that a blinking overhead caution light would be sought to slow down traffic at the intersection. "Cars speed up greatly between the traffic light at Eliot House and the one near the power plant and consequently do not notice the intersection," he explained...
Gambling requires no fleets of trucks, cutting and bottling plants, secret garages, machine-gun battles with Coast Guard cutters or dumb cops on motorcycles. Gambling can be a pretty peaceful business and a man can keep the overhead down. Slot machines, punchboards, policy and numbers games, gambling casinos and bookmaking-the gangsters tried them all, made easy money on them all. Their customers range from the penny numbers players of the big-city slums to the big-money set who keep their change in century notes...
...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...