Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fewer plane makers will sell, a plane unless it adds to the customer's profit. Eastman Kodak, U.S. Steel, International Business Machines, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Socony Mobil Oil Co and Texas Co. all have fleets ranging from puddle jumpers to four-engined DC-6Bs and turbo prop Vickers Viscounts. They find them worth their cost many times over in shuttling men and equipment around their widely diversified operations...
...maneuvered to gain the coveted stage-center spot. By the time Act II's libretto called for Corelli to draw his sword in defiance of Christoff (who played Philip II, Don Carlos' father), both singers were ready to fight. They drew, and Verdi was forgotten as the prop swords swished with real abandon. The impromptu dialogue was splendid: "Criminal! Madman! You're trying to disembowel me! I'll crack your skull!" Winner: Corelli, who got only a scratch, sent Christoff sulking off with a bloody hand. Boomed the basso later: "He was standing too close; simply...
Pedro Estrada, 48, had headed the strongman's secret police, the Seguridad National, for five years. Rising from a gumshoe job under an earlier dictator, Estrada perfected the arts of spying, bribing, the third degree and rebellion spotting, and thus made himself an invaluable prop for Perez Jimenez. Caraquefios said that he "sleeps with his eyes open." Widely feared and hated among his own fellow citizens. Estrada ingratiated himself in slangy English with foreigners, especially U.S. citizens. "We have no political prisoners," Estrada liked to explain, "just people caught in terroristic activities...
...have the monopoly power other industries have. No one farmer or small group of farmers can increase demand for his product by cutting back production. When prices fall, the only course is to produce more--which causes prices to fall still further. Thus, artificial price supports are a necessary prop for a vital part of the economy...
...prop-driven RP-71 radios back target data it picks up by radar or infra-red sensory equipment. Night targets are lighted by a series of 300,000-candle-power flares, recorded by a motion-picture camera. When its mission is accomplished, the drone can be parachuted to earth, reused time and again. "These little fellows have four obvious pluses for the field commander," says an Army droneman. "They require no take-off or landing strip; they are effective at night, when the enemy makes his important moves; they are easily recoverable; and they are pilotless -precious life is being...