Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets of Taejon, some of the trapped Americans fought the Reds at close quarters (see cut); others battled desperately to reopen the southern escape lines. Overhead, U.S. Mustangs and F80 jet fighters wheeled and roared down to attack Communist tanks with rockets. Dense clouds of oil smoke boiled up from detonated U.S. fuel supplies; as ammunition stores exploded, great orange flashes broke through the smoke clouds. Occasionally a U.S. jeep veered crazily off a street and crashed into the side of a building, its driver dead at the wheel...
...situation, in some respects, was comparable to building an expensive new house appointed with everything but electricity. Foundation, overhead, framework, maintenance swallowed up the bulk of the costs. Comparatively small expenditures after that were what provided real utility...
While Cartoonist Milton Caniff looked proudly on and P-51 Mustangs circled overhead, Colorado's Governor Walter Johnson unveiled a ten-foot, 7½-ton limestone statue of comic-strip Aviator Steve Canyon at the junction of U.S. highways...
...people and to the Army of South Korea it meant that there would be American planes overhead to help them; that there would be American warships, American weapons and matériel of all kinds. To them it meant that the world's most powerful nation had clearly sided with the distant, strange little republic of Korea...
...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...