Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...something went wrong. A Navy range ship stationed 900 miles to the south reported only weak signals from the bird passing overhead. Then came silence. The elaborate Air Force tracking system, set up across the North Pacific especially for the Discoverer series, heard nothing for 1 hr. 30 min. Then a Hawaiian station heard a brief, faint signal. After five more hours of silence, Air Force stations in Alaska and the U.S. began to pick up sporadic signals. Last week, nearly five days after launch, the Department of Defense felt able to announce that Discoverer I was in polar orbit...
...organization, Arlington Books, Inc., has reduced overhead to a minimum, with its only office in Bledsoe's home. All editors and advisers contribute their services without pay except Bledsoe, who left his job with the Beacon Press to work full time on the new enterprise...
Three men have establish a non-profit publishing house in Cambridge to serve writers who aim at a limited audience. Personal advertising and a low overhead will enable the firm to break even while distributing only "good books," according to Thomas A. Bledsoe, editor-in-chief of the new company...
...pool at an Eastern ski resort. California's plush new $1,750,000 inn at Mammoth Mountain was doing a land-office business. Michigan's Boyne Mountain resort was plowing back $250,000 a year into improvements. All in all, there were no fewer than 90 new overhead lifts operating in U.S. areas this winter, and more were...
...students heard uplifting tales of the Civil War. Clark, who ended the war as a colonel with the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, would tell his awed audience: "At the battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 1862, I was surrounded by Confederates and was called on to surrender. Bullets whistled overhead; my uniform was torn to pieces. Gentlemen, an American never surrenders. But I managed to retire, and returned to the Union forces unharmed." When the fiery Clark left for Massachusetts, he gave his students a ringing injunction: "Boys, be ambitious...