Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zero at Last. As each move is made by working the proper switches, the computing mechanism figures mathematically just how much damage has been done to the enemy's air power. A smashed airfield, for instance, weakens him at once, but the damage is soon repaired. When a factory is blasted, the effect is not felt for a while, but it lasts much longer. The side that has lost its defensive fighter bases is penalized by heavier losses when enemy bombers strike. By well-planned moves a skillful team can reduce its opponent to near-helplessness long before...
...sellers as Benjamin S. Flug and Robert Corey, a pair of Brooklyn jobbers doing business under the name of Flurey Products Corp. Said he: Flurey Corp. disguised new nickel electroplating anodes as scrap ones (which are subject to more flexible ceilings), and sold them at many times their proper ceiling price...
...Packettes" have a preheat system for quick and easy starting on the coldest arctic runways. Fresh air is warmed to 400° by a gasoline-burning, automobile-type heater. Then a hand-started blower drives the heated air over the engine proper, forces it through the crankcase and around the walls of the cylinders. In no more than ten minutes the engine is warm enough to start...
...wrecking crew . . ." said John Foster Dulles, the treaty's chief architect. Next day in Moscow, the U.S. Embassy delivered a stiff little note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry. Chief point: the San Francisco party "is not a conference to reopen negotiations on the terms of peace." Its proper business will be a final explanation of the treaty, then the signing...
Other members of the expedition also went down and looked around. They found other caves and a 15-ft. underground torrent that rushed along to a tantalizing disappearance in a closed vault-the water level flush with the top of the vault's entrance. "With proper equipment," said Cosyns, "we may be able to go down . . . perhaps even one thousand meters." And the thought of exploring one kilometer below the earth was something to make any speleologist's eyes bug with anticipation...