Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a celebrated name had to be content with a dismal attic room, though it seemed to be worth it to bask in the rays of the Sun King: the nobleman of the day counted himself lucky if he could become the official custodian of the royal chamber pot...
Like most such struggles, live v. filmed TV may end up as an uneasy compromise. Says one TV producer: "Believe me, there's room in this business for everyone. We can have live and film and tape and color. Just as long as nobody wants the whole pot...
...Wish": when you inform the world that Mrs. Walter R. Fraley is ... running a "manually operated handcar," you commit mayhem and drag railroad jargon about by the ears. As boy and man I've functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak of rust...
...North Pacific jet stream was discovered during World War II. It is formed when a cold air mass from the Arctic or Siberia meets warm air from the south, and it often moves faster than 250 m.p.h. To Pan Am, it looked like a pot of gold. Pan Am's regular route from Tokyo to Honolulu required a fuel stop at Wake Island. The dog-legged course was 4,320 miles long and took more than 17 hours. With a boost from the jet stream, Pan Am reasoned, the hop might be made nonstop, saving 450 miles and covering...
...every five sales, the salesman is entitled to draw a playing card; at week's end the salesmen with five cards or more show their hands for a high-low split of the pot. Thor Corp...